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October 01, 2025
Rare fossil reveals ancient leeches weren’t bloodsuckers
A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller marine creatures.
September 26, 2025
New adaptive optics to support gravitational-wave discoveries
UCR-developed technology will allow scientists to peer deeper into the universe
September 25, 2025
Carbon cycle flaw can plunge Earth into an ice age
How global warming may overcorrect into an ice age.
September 24, 2025
How viruses build perfectly symmetrical protective shells
Research led by a physicist at the University of California, Riverside, shows how viruses form protective shells, or capsids, around their genomes — a process that, while messy and complex, consistently results in highly symmetrical icosahedral structures.
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Graduate students win national honors for cockroach research
Rattanan Chungsawat and Emily Ta earn Entomological Society of America awards
August 27, 2025
UCR professor wins rare soil science medal
Soil Science Society of America recognizes William Jury
August 14, 2025
UCR professor studying tiny, ant-killing wasps earns big honor
Entomological Society of America elects John Heraty as fellow
July 17, 2025
Epilepsy research rewarded with fellowship and grant
Viji Santhakumar’s lab is the recipient of both
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