May 29, 2025
Does planting trees really help cool the planet?
Replanting forests can cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19th century is replanted, the total effect won’t cancel out human-generated warming.
May 28, 2025
New study highlights health risks of ultrasonic cigarettes
UC Riverside researchers find harmful metals in u-cigarettes’ liquids and aerosols
May 22, 2025
Chemical warfare on the seafloor
Study shows how turf algae undermine kelp forest recovery
May 15, 2025
Half a century of wild: saving Box Springs Mountain Park
Riverside County celebrates the 50th year of Box Springs Mountain Park, an ecological preserve saved from development by community effort.
May 08, 2025
Turning light into usable energy
A grant from the U.S. Department of Defense will allow UCR researchers to address one of physics' most complex mysteries - the process by which light transfers energy through materials.
May 08, 2025
Mathematizing keloid scars gets UCR 3rd at UC Grad Slam
On April 29, UC Riverside doctoral candidate Angeliz Vargas Casillas placed third in the 2025 UC Grad Slam, an annual competition challenging graduate students from the 10 UC campuses to effectively pitch their years-long Ph.D. research ... within three minutes ... using one single presentation slide. Gulp.
May 06, 2025
Discovery: a better, more targeted termite terminator
UC Riverside researchers find a chemical able to kill about 95 percent of a drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.
May 02, 2025
Toxic comeback looms for upholstered furniture
UC Riverside professor of environmental toxicology, David Volz argues that California lawmakers should prevent furniture manufacturers from going back to using toxic, ineffective chemical flame retardants.
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May 09, 2025
Physicist elected member of American Philosophical Society
Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society
April 30, 2025
School of Medicine server room at the heart of UCR research
High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus
April 23, 2025
UCR physicist’s work featured in popular quantum course
Umar Mohideen’s image from Casimir effect experiment will appear in Spanish version of a show on quantum mechanics
April 23, 2025
Chemistry Ph.D. students to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting
Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.
April 15, 2025
Tim Lyons’ geochemistry award continues lineage of legends
Greatness runs in the lab.
April 14, 2025
UCR part of collaboration that received Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics
CMS collaborators analyze data from Large Hadron Collider collisions
April 09, 2025
UCR scientists join elite class of 2024 AAAS fellows
A big honor for chemistry and biomedical sciences faculty
March 25, 2025
UCR physicist receives international award
Guido Altarelli Award recognizes Miguel Arratia’s work on probing the structure of the proton
