The image shows fear memory neurons (red) among all prefrontal cortex neurons (blue). Credit: Cho lab, UC Riverside A study conducted by UC Riverside researchers…
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Complete skeletal remains of a 1,700-year-old female spider monkey found in Teotihuacán, Mexico. Credit: Nawa Sugiyama, UC Riverside A team of researchers has uncovered an…
A recent study has detailed a method of converting plastic waste into a highly porous form of charcoal that has a large surface area of…
Ancient seawater pockets trapped in an iron pyrite framboid, shown here, offer a new source of clues to climate change in vanished oceans and our…
Impressions of the Ediacaran fossils Dickinsonia (at center) with the smaller anchor-shaped Parvancorina (left) in sandstone of the Ediacara Member from the Nilpena Ediacara National…
Rising sun viewed from the stone causeway of the solar observatory on Mount Tlaloc, Mexico. The view aligns with the rising sun on February 24,…
New research indicates that a mass extinction occurred 550 million years ago, during the Ediacaran period. 550-million-year-old creatures’ message to the present. Earth is currently…
The study discovered that acute thirdhand smoke exposure increased urine biomarkers of oxidative damage to DNA, lipids, and proteins and that these biomarkers remained elevated…
Artist’s conception of an M dwarf planetary system, where methyl bromide is more likely to be detected. Credit: NASA/JPL/Caltech An airborne chemical sends a distinctive…
The Salton Sea as photographed from the Salton City Yacht Club. Credit: Stan Lim/UCR A new study has identified the cause of the lake’s water…
Artist’s illustration of a young red dwarf stripping away a planet’s atmosphere. Credit: NASA, ESA, and D. Player (STScI) Planets orbiting the most common star…
The invisible halo that surrounds and permeates a galaxy or galaxy cluster is known as a dark matter halo. A University of California, Riverside physicist…
This underreporting results in worldwide pandemic estimates ranging from 600 million to 2.4 billion cases. A new mathematical model suggests that as few as 1…
Antimatter is matter made up of the antiparticles of the corresponding particles found in “ordinary” matter. Physicists invoke the cosmological collider to demonstrate why matter, not antimatter, dominates the…
The TRAPPIST-1 system, where we may soon have more information about the atmospheres of rocky, Earth-like planets from the James Webb Space Telescope. It is…
A habitable zone, shown in green here, is defined as the region around a star where liquid water, an essential ingredient for life as we…
According to recent research, antibiotics can also ruin athletic performance. Eliminating gut microorganisms reduces motivation and ability to exercise. According to a recent study, antibiotics…
Artist’s rendering of the process by which microbes captured sunlight for energy with rhodopsin proteins. Credit: Sohail Wasif/UCR Light-capturing proteins illuminate Earth of billions of…
Plants are growing in complete darkness in an acetate medium that replaces biological photosynthesis. Credit: Marcus Harland-Dunaway/UCR Artificial photosynthesis is being developed by researchers to…
A study finds that algal genes provide answers to questions concerning plant growth and health. The discovery will help develop heat-tolerant crops and improve algal…