ABC7 NEWS - A new study suggests a major ocean current in the Atlantic Ocean is slowing down, a shift researchers say could influence weather patterns around the world, including the intensity of storms affecting California. Researchers have been examining changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, known as the AMOC, a system of ocean...
Standing before fellow freshwater scientists at the Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting, UC Riverside Evolution Ecology & Organismal Biology (EEOB) doctoral student, Ria Ghosh, presented research examining the health of one of Southern California's most important—and heavily altered—river systems. The Society for Freshwater Science Annual Meeting brings together freshwater scientists, students, agency researchers, practitioners...
LIVE SCIENCE - Astronomers have found the strongest evidence yet that a rocky planet beyond our solar system has managed to hold onto an atmosphere — a crucial ingredient for life as we know it. The discovery marks the first time scientists have detected an atmosphere surrounding a rocky planet orbiting in the habitable zone...
SCIENCE ALERT - Earth's climate systems are inexorably and often unexpectedly interconnected. Dust from North Africa's Sahara Desert drifts thousands of miles to fuel food webs in the Amazon and the ocean's depths, while pollution-eating microbes hitch a ride through the atmosphere on gusts of wind or wisps of fog. Among the most influential planet-shaping...
YAHOO NEWS - Fossils from South Australia are offering a surprising clue about the deep history of animal behavior. Spriggina floundersi, an ancient organism that lived about 550 million years ago, may represent the oldest known example of "right-handedness" in animals, suggesting a preference for turning right emerged long before hands, feet, or widespread complex...
EARTH.COM - A slowdown in one of Earth’s most important ocean currents could reshape weather far beyond the Atlantic. Weakening of the ocean current could strengthen storms that slam into California while reducing the snowfall that helps keep Greenland’s massive ice sheet intact. A new study shows how changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation...
THE COOL DOWN - A Californian research team found fungi inside desert moss tissue, a result that could change how scientists think about plant life on land. According to Discover Wildlife, the implications may reach beyond moss biology. If the association is confirmed as a true symbiosis, it could also help explain how plants first...
For many incoming students, college doesn't begin on the first day of classes—it begins the moment they start building the relationships, confidence and support network that will carry them through their first year. During the first of seven CNAS Summer Orientation sessions on July 6, hundreds of incoming students and their families took those first...
EUREKA ALERT! - Scientists have uncovered what may be the earliest evidence of “right-handedness” in the animal kingdom, dating back more than half a billion years. The discovery comes from the fossil record of Spriggina floundersi, an organism from the Ediacaran Period that lived about 550 million years ago. New research published today in the...
Artificial intelligence is transforming the way scientists explore the universe—from designing more sensitive instruments and accelerating complex simulations to uncovering patterns hidden within enormous datasets. But at the Science x AI Summit held at UC Riverside, one idea surfaced again and again: the greatest breakthroughs won't come from technology alone. They will come from the...
LIVE SCIENCE - Astronomers have reconstructed the "skeleton" of the cosmos in unprecedented detail, thanks to the largest-ever survey conducted by the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST). The resulting map reveals how galaxies have evolved since the universe's infancy around 13 billion years ago and how they fall together in a vast structure called the...
BBC WILDLIFE MAGAZINE - While studying California dryland biocrusts (communities of living organisms which inhabit the surface of soils), researchers from University of California, Riverside found something unlikely inside moss. Not only could the discovery completely rewrite what we know about moss biology, but it could also offer an insight into how plants first moved...
THE NEW YORK TIMES - Any large earthquake can be dangerous, but the residents of Caracas and Venezuelan coastal cities like La Guaira and Catia La Mar were victims of several unlucky factors. Two quakes in rapid succession, a fault that ruptured toward more populated areas, soft ground and the shallow depth of the temblors...
By James Glanz, Helmuth Rosales and Marco Hernandez | The New York Times |
For Lily Maya, choosing UC Riverside was years in the making. She first remembers visiting UCR during a middle school field trip, when the campus left a lasting impression on her. Later, while researching colleges in high school, she was drawn to UCR's strong support for first-generation and Hispanic students—an important factor in her decision...
When James Riggs arrived at UC Riverside as a biology major, he knew he wanted a career in healthcare—but he wasn't yet sure what that would look like. Four years later, he graduated with a clear path forward, shaped by the experiences and community he found along the way. James is spending a gap year...
Nobel Prize-winning physicist Adam Riess visited UC Riverside on June 4 to deliver the latest installment of the Frontiers of Cosmology Lecture Series, offering a public exploration of one of the most profound mysteries in modern science: why the universe’s expansion is accelerating. Hosted by the UCR Center for Experimental Cosmology & Instrumentation (CECI) in...
CNN - Earlier this month, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott told residents to brace themselves for an “extraordinarily challenging summer.” A flesh-eating parasite that did hundreds of millions of dollars of damage across the state in the 1960s and ’70s, one that had been considered eradicated from the US for decades, has come back and poses...
EARTH.COM - Moss seems to get by on almost nothing. It colonizes bare rock, survives near-total desiccation, and springs back minutes after rain. The vast majority of land plants form underground partnerships with fungi, trading sugars for nutrients they can’t reach alone. Mosses had always been treated as the exception. New research from California’s desert...
SCITECHDAILY - In some of the driest places on Earth, the ground itself can be alive. What looks like a thin, dark crust on desert soil may actually be a miniature ecosystem, packed with mosses, fungi, bacteria, algae, and tiny animals. These biological soil crusts help hold fragile landscapes together, trapping dust, storing nutrients, and...
NEWSWEEK - A new study is raising questions about one of the most widely held ideas in Alzheimer’s research—suggesting the disease may not start with plaques in the brain after all. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) say the earliest changes could instead happen inside nerve cells, where two key proteins appear to...
