Wild-growing tomatoes are on the black-rock islands of the Galápagos are doing something peculiar. They’re shedding millions ...

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 ...

UC Riverside has once again been named a great value in the Princeton Review’s latest college rankings, where it was ranked ...

When you cross the second-floor catwalk to see “Shadow Archive: Meggan Gould,” on view at the California Museum of ...

Research plants growing in a campus greenhouse. (Elena Zhukova/UCR) The study, led by Meng Chen, a University of California, Riverside professor of cell biology, shows that plants rely on multiple ...

Replanting forests can help cool the planet even more than some scientists once believed, especially in the tropics. But even if every tree lost since the mid-19 th century is replanted, the total ...

Q: Do you think it will be possible to eventually create videos and chatbots that are impossible to distinguish from real people? What are the limitations of this technology, and how long do you think ...

Vulture bees in Costa Rica dining on raw chicken bait. (Quinn McFrederick/UCR) Typically, bees don’t eat meat. However, a species of stingless bee in the tropics has evolved the ability to do so, ...

Scientists from UC Riverside are studying how the popular keto and intermittent fasting diets work on a molecular level, and whether both sexes benefit from them equally. The idea behind the keto diet ...

A model of tau, a protein central to the progression of Alzheimer's. For this project, the researchers scanned all the proteins in donated brain samples. Those with brain buildup but no dementia had ...

On the left, one of the ultra-diffuse galaxies that was analyzed in the simulation. On the right, the image of the DF2 galaxy, which is almost transparent. (ESA/Hubble) Dwarf galaxies are small ...