(PhysOrg.com) -- Breakthrough research done earlier this year by a plant cell biologist at the University of California, Riverside has greatly accelerated scientists' knowledge on how plants and crops can ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 18, 2009 5 / 5 (4) 0

Anthony Norman, a leading international expert in vitamin D, proposes worldwide policy changes regarding people's vitamin D daily intake amount in order to maximize the vitamin's contribution to reducing the frequency of ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Aug 09, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 0

New research by scientists at the University of California, Riverside shows that evolution – genetic changes in populations over time – can occur so rapidly in organisms that its impact on population ...

Biology - Ecology

Aug 15, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

A team of scientists from the University of California, Riverside recently rediscovered the rarest species of bumblebee in the United States, last seen in 1956, living in the White Mountains of south-central ...

Biology - Plants & Animals

Dec 05, 2011 5 / 5 (4) 1 |

Shaahin Amini was ready to quit. The Ph.D. student at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering had spent three hours looking into a microscope scanning a maze of black-and-white crosshatched ...

Other Sciences - Other

May 30, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0

Biochemists at the University of California, Riverside report a new role for vitamin C in plants: promoting the production of twins and even triplets in plant seeds.

Chemistry - Biochemistry

Jun 18, 2012 5 / 5 (4) 0 |

A research team led by biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has filled in a billion-year gap in our understanding of conditions in the early ocean during a critical time in the history ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Mar 18, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 3 |

While automotive and medical device manufacturing may seemingly have little in common, the latter has long benefited from advancements in the former. For example, manufacturing techniques originally developed ...

Technology - Engineering

Apr 23, 2013 5 / 5 (4) 0

You pick up a bottle of pomegranate juice at the store because you've learned that, although it costs more than most juices, it is replete with antioxidants that bring health benefits. But wait: Is the juice ...

Chemistry - Other

Nov 29, 2010 3.8 / 5 (5) 2

A professor at the University of California, Riverside's Bourns College of Engineering will receive an international award for his pioneering work in nanotechnology that could have far-reaching impacts on electronic devices.

Nanotechnology - Nanomaterials

Apr 20, 2011 4.5 / 5 (4) 0

A research team of biogeochemists at the University of California, Riverside has provided a new view on the relationship between the earliest accumulation of oxygen in the atmosphere, arguably the most important ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Apr 24, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

RNA molecules, made from DNA, are best known for their role in protein production. MicroRNAs (miRNAs), however, are short (~22) nucleotide RNA sequences found in plants and animals that do not encode pro ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Apr 25, 2013 4.5 / 5 (4) 0 |

Over the last half a billion years, the ocean has mostly been full of oxygen and teeming with animal life. But earlier, before animals had evolved, oxygen was harder to come by. Now a new study led by researchers ...

Space & Earth - Earth Sciences

Sep 07, 2011 4.3 / 5 (4) 1 |

(Phys.org) -- California’s hydropower is vulnerable to climate change, a University of California, Riverside scientist has advised policymakers in “Our Changing Climate,” a report released ...

Space & Earth - Environment

Aug 07, 2012 4 / 5 (4) 8

A researcher at UC Riverside has discovered a new species of lichen - a plant-like growth that looks like moss or a dry leaf - and named it after President Barack Obama.

Biology - Other

Apr 15, 2009 5 / 5 (3) 1