Fake news can be tricky to spot, but spotting fake drugs just got a little easier. UC Riverside researchers have devised a low-cost way to help distinguish legitimate medications from counterfeit ones ...

A global analysis of more than 2,300 seawater samples from more than 20 field studies around the globe indicates that ...

New UC Riverside-led research suggests Alzheimer’s arises not simply from plaques forming in the brain, as is widely believed, but from one protein interfering with the normal job of another ...

Researchers have identified a network of connections between the brainstem and spinal cord that enables people to grasp, hold ...

The rapid growth of artificial intelligence and cloud computing is outpacing the ability of many community water systems to ...

In a new book, sociologist Brandon Andrew Robinson calls for abolishing sexual identities. Robinson, an associate professor of gender and sexuality studies at UC Riverside, knows it’s a provocative ...

What if you could talk to a digital facsimile of a deceased loved one? Would you really be talking to them? Would you even want to? In recent years, technology has been employed to resurrect the dead, ...

A newly described fossil reveals that leeches are at least 200 million years older than scientists previously thought, and that their earliest ancestors may have feasted not on blood, but on smaller ...

A discovery by UC Riverside scientists could assist water providers across the nation as they face new federal standards to limit “forever chemical” concentrations in drinking water. Haizhou Liu Known ...

Soybean oil, the most widely consumed cooking oil in the United States and a staple of processed foods, contributes to obesity, at least in mice, through a mechanism scientists are now beginning to ...

Finding patterns and reducing noise in large, complex datasets generated by the gravitational wave-detecting LIGO facility just got easier, thanks to the work of scientists at the University of ...