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Cleaner East Asian air unmasks a much hotter planet
As China slashed sulfur dioxide emissions by roughly 75 percent, a new study finds Earth began warming much, much faster.
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Scientists find new way to control electricity at tiniest scale
Researchers have uncovered how to manipulate electrical flow through crystalline silicon, a discovery that could lead to smaller, faster, and more efficient devices by harnessing quantum electron behavior. 
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Sugar, the hidden thermostat in plants
For a decade, scientists have believed that plants sensed temperature mainly through specialized proteins, and mainly at night when the air is cool. New research suggests that during the day, another signal takes over. Sugar, produced in sunlight, helps plants detect heat and decide when to grow.
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Pair of malaria parasite proteins could lead to therapies
A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the parasite responsible for the deadliest form of human malaria, that could make novel, highly targeted anti-malarial therapies possible.
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Tomatoes in the Galápagos are de-evolving
Wild-growing tomatoes are on the black-rock islands of the Galápagos are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions of years of evolution, reverting to a primitive genetic state that resurrects ancient chemical defenses.
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Strange Atlantic cold spot traced to ocean slowdown
For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean’s overall warming, fueling debate amongst scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the long-term weakening of a major ocean circulation system.
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How ubiquitous small particles turn harmful inside plants
A new UC Riverside-led study reveals how common small particles produced by nature as well as human activities can transform upon entering plant cells and weaken plants’ ability to turn sunlight into food.
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A California dairy tried to capture its methane. It worked.
A University of California, Riverside study shows dairy digesters can reduce methane emissions on farms by roughly 80 percent, which matches estimates state officials have used in their climate planning.
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Early-career faculty win fellowships
Eight UC Riverside assistant professors, whose research spans innovations in computer science to discoveries in Latin American history, have been awarded competitive 2025–26 Hellman Fellowships that support promising early-career faculty on the path to tenure.
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Highlights from UCR’s 71st Commencement
UC Riverside concluded its 71st Commencement season on June 17, with UCR’s Class of 2025 walking at eight discipline- or degree-based ceremonies. Approximately 6,100 graduates, 35,000 in-person guests, 32,000 online streamers, and about 375 volunteer staff participated in the celebrations, which started on June 6. Highlanders belonging to specific groups also took part in additional micro celebrations organized by various student resources like the University Honors Cording, and year-end celebrations hosted by UCR’s ethnic and gender centers.
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How did supermassive black holes form in the early universe?
John Templeton Foundation grant to UCR will support research by physicist Hai-Bo Yu
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Barry Barish
Physicist recognized for contributions to cosmic ray physics
Barry Barish will receive the IUPAP-TIFR Homi Bhabha Award in July
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Barry Barish
Physicist elected member of American Philosophical Society
Barry Barish is one of only 38 new members of North America’s oldest learned society
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School of Medicine Education Building I
School of Medicine server room at the heart of UCR research
High-powered computers relocated to SOM Ed 1 will benefit research across campus
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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
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Chemistry PhD students
Chemistry Ph.D. students to represent UCR at Nobel Laureate meeting 
Ashley Pimentel and Ting Zhao encourage fellow students to pursue opportunities.
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