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California proposal would build 8 data centers in Bay Area. Here’s where
Shaolei Ren, an associate professor the Bourns College of Engineering, discussed how data center developers are hungry for land.
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Deadly screwworm threatens U.S. cattle herd as cases climb
UCR entomology professor Alec Gerry speculates on ways the New World screwworm may have reentered the U.S., imperiling American dairy farms.
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Researchers took moss from the Californian desert – and found something very weird (and tiny) in it
For a long time, scientists have taken one fact for granted: fungi and moss don’t establish symbiotic relationships with each other (moss would be the only major lineage of land plants with that trait). Kian Kelly and Jason Stajich from UCR's Microbiology and Plant Pathology Department authored a new study showing that in fact, they do form relationships.
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Aliens may not even have bodies, new theory says
Vice | July 4, 2026
According to a new paper by philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel of the University of California, Riverside, and Jeremy Pober of the University of Lisbon, if consciousness exists beyond Earth, it could take forms we can’t even imagine, and it might not even inhabit anything we’d recognize as a body.
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How lifelong learning helps older adults stay sharp and connected
Rachel Wu studies how people learn across the lifespan.
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Scientists are on the lookout for the New World screwworm fly in California
Entomologist Amy Murillo shared a rare, up-close look at the flesh-eating fly now terrorizing cattle and dairy farmers.
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The mystery of Alaska’s orange rivers is finally solved
Alaska's Arctic rivers have a big, orange problem. Excessive amounts of iron are getting into the water and it's killing insects and fish. UCR biogeochemist Tim Lyons was part of a crew that figured out exactly how this is happening, and how to predict where it'll happen next.
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Want to feel more loved? You’re probably going about it the wrong way
UCR psychologist Sonja Lyubomirsky and her collaborator Harry Reis at the University of Rochester argue feeling loved comes from being truly known — built through radical curiosity, vulnerable sharing and their “sea-saw” model of back-and-forth conversation.