Extended heatwaves have left forests in California and Canada tinder-dry, setting the stage for more intense and fast-moving fires. According to James Gomez, a PhD student studying wildfires at UCR, warmer air draws more water from vegetation, leaving it drier and more flammable. When lightning strikes, there is more fuel for it to burn.
Rick Vetter, a retired research associate in UCR’s entomology department, has good news for arachnophobes in the LA area. Locals are probably at less risk now from a widow bite than they once were, as black widows been pushed to the edges of the county by their less dangerous brown relatives.
UCR physicist Simeon Bird is using a simulation suite, called PRIYA (named after his wife), to study a special phenomenon of hydrogen atoms in deep outer space.
Termite activity is considered to be "very heavy" in California and other southeastern states, and the options to rid your home of the destructive insect are limited and often expensive. But new research from UCR entomologist Dong Hwan Choe shows help might be on the horizon.
Daryle Williams, CHASS dean, talks to Black Voice News on the importance of community participation in the panel discussion held on July 16 at UCR ARTS. The event, dubbed “How does the Inland Empire strike back against hate?” was co-sponsored by CHASS.
In addition to high levels of energy usage, the data centers that train and operate generative AI models consume millions of gallons of water. The data centers, are just evaporating water into the air, says Shaolei Ren, a responsible AI researcher at UC Riverside.
UCR biologists Tim Higham and Phil Sternes conducted research showing that when the ocean got very hot approximately 122 million years ago, some sharks abandoned their habitat on the seafloor and moved up into the open ocean. That ascent may have altered their fin and body structure, which led to changes in their size and ability to swim.
