Chow-Yang Lee, a UCR urban entomologist Likewise, says scientists have long suspected that the Asian cockroach is actually the ancestor for the German cockroach, but he is excited to read a new paper demonstrating that this is true.
In this New York Times story, UCR evolutionary biologist David Reznick weighs in on a study that determined the number of calories a woman must expend to grow a baby inside of her body.
In this Wall Street Journal story, professor of public policy Bruce Babcock weighs in on the "reprieve" two years of heavy rains and an ample snowpack have delivered to Western bodies of water including the Great Salt Lake.
UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane led the discovery of a planet in a faraway star system that appears to be erupting with so many volcanoes, it glows a fiery red when seen from space. No planet like this has ever been observed before, researchers say.
UCR astrophysicist Stephen Kane found a roiling-hot exoplanet billions of miles away that is dotted with so many volcanos that it would visibly glow in the darkness of space.
Simon Groen, assistant professor of evolutionary systems biology at UCR, says that parasitic worms in a person's brain cause more problems when they start to die than when they are alive. That’s when a lot of molecules are released from the parasite cells that trigger an innate immune response, inflammation, and neurological disorders like seizures.
