EARTH.COM - In many California citrus groves, the most troublesome ant is barely a tenth of an inch long. The Argentine ant does not feed on the trees, but it protects the insects that do. These ...

NEWSWEEK - The United States Geological Survey (USGS) estimated a 7.7 magnitude earthquake struck near Pitaloza Arriba, Panama, on Friday. Earlier estimates placed the magnitude between 7.6 and 8 and ...

Sequencing to Success Opens UCR Labs to Community College Students For community college students considering a future in science, spending a day in a university research laboratory can help them see ...

PEOPLE - Venus may be moonless today, but that doesn’t necessarily mean it always was. A new study suggests that if Venus once had a moon, the planet’s unusually slow rotation could have eventually ...

SCIENCE ALERT - Wildfires that ravage developed areas of the US tend to hit a particular kind of neighborhood: suburban, owner-occupied, and relatively well-off, new research has found. Wildfires in ...

USA TODAY - Meet the newest members of the Swiftie universe. They're blonde, accented in red and have names like "Lover," "Fearless" and "Poets." They've also been hiding out in Australia for decades.

GIZMODO - Earthquakes may strike without warning, but the ground beneath us is rarely completely still. Current systems can measure these tiny movements with remarkable precision, but until now, they ...

For 11 undergraduate students, summer research at UC Riverside meant counting butterflies, tracking bumblebees, studying forest ecosystems, monitoring desert tortoises and spending long days — and ...

For community college students considering a future in science, spending a day in a university research laboratory can help them see what that future might look like. This fall, UC Riverside's ...

AOL - A chemical commonly found in vapes could harm unborn babies, scientists have warned. Researchers at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) have urged the NHS to warn pregnant women after ...