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Study finds natural fires help native bees, improve food security

4 years ago news.ucr.edu

A wormlike creature that lived more than 555 million years ago is the earliest bilaterian

4 years ago news.ucr.edu

Soybean oil not only leads to obesity and diabetes but also causes neurological changes, a new study in mice shows

4 years ago news.ucr.edu diabetes

Research identifies possible on/off switch for plant growth

4 years ago news.ucr.edu

The calculations take scientists a step closer to realizing a gamma-ray laser, which may have applications in medical imaging, spacecraft propulsion, and cancer treatment.

4 years ago news.ucr.edu cancer

Scientists use nontoxic silicon nanocrystals to convert low-energy photons into high-energy ones, which could lead to minimally invasive photodynamic treatments for cancer

4 years ago news.ucr.edu cancer

Guppies teach us why evolution happens - animals evolve in response to the environment that they create in the absence of predators

5 years ago news.ucr.edu

Around 9% of voters who supported Barack Obama in 2012 crossed party lines to endorse Donald Trump in 2016

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Study finds electronic cigarettes damage brain stem cells

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Scientists decode the genome of black-eyed peas, which have a reputation for surviving heat and drought, giving them the potential to feed people where famine is common.

5 years ago news.ucr.edu

Scientists have finally found a neurotoxin that doesn’t appear to be harmful to any living thing except Anopheles mosquitoes that spread malaria

5 years ago news.ucr.edu malaria

Thirdhand smoke - residue left by exhaled smoke on surfaces - negatively affects cells in humans.

5 years ago news.ucr.edu

New study busts myths about gossip: Women don’t engage in “tear-down” gossip any more than men, lower income people don’t gossip more than wealthy people, younger people are more likely to gossip negatively than their older counterparts, and people gossip 52 minutes a day on average (n=467).

5 years ago news.ucr.edu

The urge to squeeze or even bite a cute puppy, or being compelled to pinch a baby’s cheeks without a desire to harm it, is called “cute aggression”, and a new electrophysiology (ERP) study is the first to confirm a neural basis for this phenomenon.

5 years ago news.ucr.edu