NPR/KVCR - A UC Riverside scientist has made a key discovery about evolution from an unlikely source: guppies. UCR professor of biology David Reznick used the small fish to study this question: do animals evolve in response to the risk of being eaten, or to the environment that they create in the absence of predators...
NPR/KVCR - On July 6, just a day after the 7.1 earthquake in Ridgecrest, Ghosh drove out to the city to install 25 seismometers in the ground. Seismometers are instruments that measure vibrations in the ground and record them into a data log that can be used to analyze earthquakes. Ghosh will use this data...
GIZMODO - While some Joshua trees will hang on if humans rapidly lower their carbon emissions, if no action is taken to stop climate change we’ll lose nearly all of these iconic spiky trees, which only live in the area near southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Published in the journal Ecosphere in June, the...