“Germy places in your bedroom are obviously going to be any high-touch surfaces, so your light switches and your door handles ...

The unusual molecular makeup of Borrelia burgdorferi, which causes Lyme disease, may hold clues for understanding and treating the tick-borne disease.

Lichen is an understated presence in our everyday world, often found clinging to trees and rocks. Its true beauty lies in its unique symbiotic system of fungi and algae, or cyanobacteria, that form a ...

It’s commonly recognized that birds rank among the closest direct descendants of dinosaurs, but many people wonder if they ...

Researchers have identified a chemical that kills about 95 percent of a western drywood termite colony without off-target effects on mammals.

Drywood termites, the ones that hide in wooden structures, molt about seven times in their lives. UC Riverside researchers ...

But it's hard to imagine a world without concrete when it’s the building block of nearly everything: homes, buildings, ...