ASTRONOMY ONLINE - Astronomers know that most galaxies house supermassive black holes in their centers, from the largest galaxies down to small dwarfs. They also know that when supermassive black holes are actively feeding, they can slow or even stop the formation of stars in their home. Although this relationship has been well established for...

HEALTHLINE ONLINE - The news about vaping from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) keeps getting more ominous. Today, the CDC reported Trusted Source there are now 1,299 known cases of lung disease associated with the use of e-cigarette products. The illnesses are likely due to a combination of factors, added Prue Talbot...

ASSOCIATED PRESS - In a lab southeast of Los Angeles, researchers are opening a new front in the yearslong battle against a tiny pest that has wreaked havoc on citrus groves around the world. California citrus growers and packers and the University of California, Riverside on Thursday marked the opening of an $8 million lab...

NPR/KVCR - A UC Riverside scientist has made a key discovery about evolution from an unlikely source: guppies. UCR professor of biology David Reznick used the small fish to study this question: do animals evolve in response to the risk of being eaten, or to the environment that they create in the absence of predators...

NPR/KVCR - On July 6, just a day after the 7.1 earthquake in Ridgecrest, Ghosh drove out to the city to install 25 seismometers in the ground. Seismometers are instruments that measure vibrations in the ground and record them into a data log that can be used to analyze earthquakes. Ghosh will use this data...

GIZMODO - While some Joshua trees will hang on if humans rapidly lower their carbon emissions, if no action is taken to stop climate change we’ll lose nearly all of these iconic spiky trees, which only live in the area near southern California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Published in the journal Ecosphere in June, the...