TECH TIMES - Scientists at UC Riverside have unveiled a new weapon in the fight against crop pests: a tiny nematode species capable of infecting and eliminating insects. Named Steinernema adamsi after American biologist Byron Adams, this tiny worm holds the key to eco-friendly pest control in warm, humid regions where traditional methods falter. Nematodes...
RCSA - Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 19 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2024 Cottrell Scholar Awards. Each awardee receives $120,000. “These awardees stand out not just for their excellence in teaching and research but for their potential,” said...
WALL STREET JOURNAL - Torrential rains hammered Southern California, flooding freeways, triggering mudslides that engulfed hillside homes and forcing authorities to rescue people trapped in raging waters. The deluge battered communities from Santa Barbara to San Diego, with up to 11 inches of rain falling in some places since Sunday, shattering rainfall records across the...
By Sara Randazzo, Suryatapa Bhattacharya, and Jim Carlton | The Wall Street Journal |
Stephanie Dingwall, UCR Associate Professor of Teaching, Biochemistry, took the lead in the opening panel of the recent Post-Congress Workshop: Practical Approaches to Undergraduate Education that addressed innovative course re-designs, as well as efficient ways to utilize resources like teaching assistants, undergraduate learning assistants and peer mentors across a broad array of course types. A...
Nathaniel Co ’27, a first-year medical student at the UCR School of Medicine, is highly motivated and eager to develop skills as a clinician with an eye toward pursuing a career in internal medicine. So motivated, in fact, that when he graduated from the UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) in Fall...
“To this day, I don’t think I would’ve been able to earn my degree if it weren’t for the amazing people I found at UCR, who were cheering me on and inviting me to their study groups,” says Ashley Trinidad, who graduated from the UC Riverside College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) last June...
ABC NEWS - Researchers have discovered which dog breeds are more likely to get cancer, and the results disprove the notion that the largest dogs have a higher risk of the disease. It turns out that large -- but not the largest -- dog breeds generally have the highest cancer risk, according to the study...
USA TODAY - A wildlife filmmaker and a biology student believe they may have captured the first-ever footage of a newborn great white shark. Carlos Gauna, a wildlife filmmaker, and Phillip Sternes, a UC Riverside biology doctoral student, used a drone to film a 5-foot-long white shark swimming 1,300 feet off the coast of Carpinteria...
NEWSWEEK - For the first time, a live baby great white shark has been spotted in the wild. The shark was around 5 feet long already and pure white, unlike its grey-colored adult counterparts, leading scientists to believe it could be a baby great white, according to a new paper discussing the finding in the...
BBC - As far as experts are aware, the birth of a great white shark has never been witnessed, but Carlos Gauna may have captured the closest thing to that. Carlos has found fame on YouTube as TheMalibuArtist and has filmed incredible shots of sharks from above with his drone. "You're basically viewing the sharks...
THE DAILY MAIL - The first sighting of a newborn great white shark has been revealed in a new image that captured a five-foot-long, all-white predator swimming of the coast of California. The newborn great white shark was believed to be just hours old when scientists spotted it only 1,000 feet from the beach in...
THE WASHINGTON POST - A scientist and a wildlife filmmaker have captured what may be rare photos and video of a newborn great white shark, seen swimming just off the California coast near Santa Barbara. The footage, filmed by a drone last July, is stirring up excitement tinged with skepticism among experts who are eager...
CBS NEWS - Great white sharks are among the most notable of the ocean's apex predators, but a crucial part of their existence has never before been recorded, or even seen – until now. For the first time ever, an infant great white shark is believed to have been caught on camera, shortly after it...
POPULAR SCIENCE - A wildlife filmmaker and biology doctoral student have taken what could be the first picture of a newborn great white shark. The images and findings are described in a study published January 29 in the journal Environmental Biology of Fishes. On July 9, 2023, filmmaker Carlos Gauna and University of California, Riverside...
NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC - For as much time and money as people have spent studying and filming great white sharks, no one has ever witnessed one being born. But new footage out of California might be the next best thing. On July 9, 2023, filmmaker Carlos Gauna and organismal biologist Phillip Sternes were following sharks with...
NPR / KCRW - The megalodon went extinct 3.6 million years ago, and is thought to be the largest shark that ever swam the Earth. But there's debate over what it looked like. Most scientists have described it as a bigger version of today's great white shark, a depiction that has informed its appearance on...
POPULAR MECHANICS - We’re not quite sure if a new description of the extinct megalodon shark makes it more or less frightening. The fresh theory—described in a theory that was recently published in Palaeontologia Electronica—claims that the ancient creature was longer and slenderer than previously thought, with new estimates putting the size of the potentially...
ZME SCIENCE - The Megalodon, an ancient shark that dominated the oceans millions of years ago, has often been portrayed as a monstrous, oversized great white shark. This image, perpetuated by popular movies like “The Meg,” has been ingrained in the public consciousness. However, a new study is turning this perception on its head. Formally...
ASTRONOMY - Maybe dark matter talks to itself, according to a new proposal, and that might just explain two cosmological mysteries at once. Dark matter is the name astronomers give to the mysterious substance that makes up the bulk of all matter in the universe. Upwards of 80 percent of the mass of a galaxy...
UNILAD - For those of you who aren't aware of the legend of the megalodon - no it's not some made-up word a group of lads came up with in one of their group chats - it's the name of the largest shark ever known. The shark - known as Megalodon or simply The Meg...
