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 ...

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 ...

UC Riverside has once again been named a great value in the Princeton Review’s latest college rankings, where it was ranked No. 33 overall on the list’s Top 50 Best Value Colleges among public schools ...

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

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

For more than a century, a patch of cold water south of Greenland has resisted the Atlantic Ocean’s overall warming, fueling debate amongst scientists. A new study identifies the cause as the ...

A team of scientists at the University of California, Riverside, explains in a paper published in PLoS Pathogens how a microscopic parasite, Toxoplasma gondii, can significantly disrupt brain function ...

Dairy digester on a Central Valley farm helping to reduce methane emissions. (Chelsea Preble/UC Berkeley) A new study from researchers at the University of California, Riverside shows the ...

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 ...

UCR computer scientist Mingxun Wang in his laboratory. Wang created the new programming language for scientists. (Stan Lim/UCR) Mass spectrometry data is like a chemical fingerprint, showing ...

UCR's Vincent Lavallo, left, and Aaron Gregory, right, who helped prove a 67-year-old chemistry hypothesis. (Stan Lim/UCR) The molecule in question is a carbene, a type of carbon atom with only six ...