The College of Natural & Agricultural Sciences (CNAS) at UC Riverside welcomed 13 new faculty members in 2026, bringing ...

POPULAR MECHANICS - Earth was a vastly different planet 2.4 billion years ago. Shrouded in a haze of carbon dioxide, methane, and water vapor, its atmosphere was more similar to that of Saturn’s moon ...

An invader from South America The Argentine ant, Linepithema humile, is native to the Paraná River basin in Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay and Uruguay. It was first detected in the United States in ...

Retired UC Riverside entomologist Rick S. Vetter adds that juveniles can have red dots or white stripes. Their egg sacs can also indicate whether you’re looking at a black widow—they’re typically ...

Graduate students looking to pursue an advanced degree through the College of Natural and Agricultural Sciences have an opportunity to work with and learn from some of the top minds in their fields.

UCR’s Career Center is here to help current undergraduate, graduate students, and alumni on their career paths. A few of our services include: appointments for resume/CV building, career exploration, ...

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 ...

LOS ANGELES TIMES - For students at UC Riverside, the start of fall semester means picking up their class syllabus, catching up with friends and snapping selfies with the adorable wild donkeys that ...

EARTH.COM - More than 2 billion years ago, oxygen became a permanent part of Earth’s atmosphere. What happened next has puzzled scientists for decades. Somehow, oxygen levels stayed high enough for ...

SPACE.COM - Earth is the only home we know, but it was not always one we could live in. The oxygen we depend on with every breath was essentially absent when Earth formed about 4.5 billion years ago.