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Venus and Earth evolutionary paths
Hunting Venus 2.0: Scientists sharpen their sights
With the first paper compiling all known information about planets like Venus beyond our solar system, scientists are the closest they’ve ever been to finding an analog of Earth’s “twin.” 
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Humans bite back by deactivating mosquito sperm
New UC Riverside research makes it likely that proteins responsible for activating mosquito sperm can be shut down, preventing them from swimming to or fertilizing eggs.
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Solar system and moons of Jupiter
The planet that could end life on Earth
A terrestrial planet hovering between Mars and Jupiter would be able to push Earth out of the solar system and wipe out life on this planet, according to a UC Riverside experiment.
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Breathing is going to get tougher
When global temperatures increase by 4 degrees Celsius, harmful plant emissions and dust will also increase by as much as 14 percent, according to new UC Riverside research.
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A Message from Dean Kathryn Uhrich

From its roots in agricultural research, the College continues to expand its scientific reach with a number of internationally ranked programs addressing the most pressing scientific questions of our time …

 

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Masterclass 2023
High schoolers get university-level education in particle physics
The students compared their experiment results with those obtained by European students
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big data
UCR team wins National Science Foundation grant for undergraduate data science program
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Mark Alber
UCR math professor wins prestigious Fulbright scholarship
Award enables Netherlands partnership for computational and mathematical biology 
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Neuroscience graduate student receives prestigious predoctoral fellowship
Elena Kozlova’s research will study how indoor flame retardant toxicants may affect brain development
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