A new species of gigantic tumbleweed once predicted to go extinct is not only here to stay—it's likely to expand its territory.
Plants & Animals
Aug 26, 2019
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Photosynthesis has evolved in plants for millions of years to turn water, carbon dioxide, and the energy from sunlight into plant biomass and the foods we eat. This process, however, is very inefficient, with only about 1% ...
Biotechnology
Jun 23, 2022
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They say love is blind, but if you're a queen honeybee it could mean true loss of sight.
Plants & Animals
Sep 10, 2019
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If not for the soupy, fast-moving atmosphere on Venus, Earth's sister planet would likely not rotate. Instead, Venus would be locked in place, always facing the sun the way the same side of the moon always faces Earth.
Astronomy
Apr 20, 2022
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UC Riverside scientists have discovered a tiny worm species that infects and kills insects. These worms, called nematodes, could control crop pests in warm, humid places where other beneficial nematodes are currently unable ...
Plants & Animals
Feb 8, 2024
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Positronium is a short-lived system in which an electron and its anti-particle are bound together. In 2007, physicists at the University of California, Riverside created molecular positronium, a brand-new substance, in the ...
General Physics
May 1, 2010
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An international team of astronomers led by researchers at the University of California, Riverside, has discovered an unusual massive cluster of young galaxies forming in the early universe. The newly discovered growing galactic ...
Astronomy
Feb 9, 2022
3
1025
How fast can evolution take place? In just a few years, according to a new study on guppies led by UC Riverside's Swanne Gordon, a graduate student in biology.
Evolution
Jun 11, 2009
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0
Tiny, seemingly harmless ocean plants survived the darkness of the asteroid strike that killed the dinosaurs by learning a ghoulish behavior—eating other living creatures.
Plants & Animals
Oct 30, 2020
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We've all heard about the search for life on other planets, but what about looking on other moons?
Astronomy
Jun 14, 2018
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