A University of California, Riverside-led team has made an advance in the basic understanding of Plasmodium falciparum, the ...

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 ...

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 ...

Typically, bees don’t eat meat. However, a species of stingless 'vulture' bee in the tropics has evolved the ability to do so, presumably due to intense competition for nectar. UC Riverside scientists ...

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 ...

UC Riverside scientists are betting an ancient solution will solve citrus growers’ biggest problem by breeding new fruits with natural resistance to a deadly tree disease. The hybrid fruits will ...

Professor Boris Baer's family tending beehives in Riverside, Calif. (Boris Baer/UCR) Honeybees pollinate more than 80 agricultural crops, which account for about a third of what we eat. Several ...

Close-up look at the new nematode species, Steinernema adamsi. (Adler Dillman / UCR) This new species is a member of a family of nematodes called Steinernema that have long been used in agriculture to ...

The Salton Sea, the body of water in Southern California’s Coachella Valley and Imperial Valley, is shrinking over time as the planet warms and exposing more lakebed and new sources of dust in the ...

Lithium extraction near California's Salton Sea could create economic growth for Imperial County, which has the lowest per capita income in the state. (UCR) Lithium is required for making electric ...