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Grad Slam: Zooming Through Research

  • by Dateline Staff
  • April 06, 2021
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  • Dateline
  • Driven by Curiosity
Mural

How Do We Document Stories at the Border?

  • by Hayley Morris and Soterios Johnson
  • April 02, 2021
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Homeless person

How Has the Pandemic Affected the Homeless?

  • by Hayley Morris, UC Davis Media Relations Intern
  • March 19, 2021
  • The Curiosity Gap
  • Driven by Curiosity
Concept art of memory and the brain

Making Decisions Based on How We Feel About Memories, Not Accuracy

  • by Andy Fell
  • March 10, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Science & Technology
Man and woman

COVID-19 Isolation Linked to Increased Domestic Violence, Researchers Suggest

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • February 24, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
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Teens talking

Most Teen Bullying Occurs Among Peers Climbing the Social Ladder

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • February 17, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Society, Arts & Culture
illustration of female warrior

How to Illustrate a 9,000-Year-Old Female Hunter?

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • February 16, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Society, Arts & Culture
vaccine

Vaccine Misinformation Can Overwhelm Facts

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • February 09, 2021
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  • Human & Animal Health
  • Society, Arts & Culture
masked communications

Speaking and Listening Seem More Difficult in a Masked World, But People Are Adapting

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • February 02, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Advancing Health Worldwide
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Tesla

Tesla’s Advantage: EVs Cannot Succeed Without Developing Parallel Supercharging Networks

  • by Tim Akin
  • February 01, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Society, Arts & Culture
marijuana sale

Counties With More Cannabis Dispensaries Show Reduced Opioid Deaths

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • January 28, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Woman works with pipettes in lab.

What’s Behind Our COVID-19 Testing?

  • by Andy Fell
  • January 12, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Science & Technology
  • University
  • Advancing Health Worldwide
Graphic of effect on Latino Families

Latina Mothers, Often Essential Workers, Report COVID-19 Took Financial, Psychological Toll

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • January 08, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Example of Tweet

Vaccine Myths on Social Media Can Be Effectively Reduced With Credible Fact Checking

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • January 07, 2021
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Advancing Health Worldwide
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Children giving

Is It Better to Give Than Receive?

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • December 01, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Woman hunter

Early Big-Game Hunters of the Americas Were Female, Researchers Suggest

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • November 04, 2020
  • Society, Arts & Culture
  • Driven by Curiosity
Collage of several black-and-white portraits.

Humanizing Deportation

  • by Leigh Houck
  • October 30, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Medical scene

Empathy May Be in the Eye of the Beholder

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • October 27, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Artist’s rendering of distant galaxy

Observing Dusty Galaxies in the Early Universe

  • by Andy Fell
  • October 27, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
A bee on flowers.

Genome Sequencing Shows Climate Barrier to Spread of Africanized Bees

  • by Andy Fell
  • October 21, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
Patrick Shih in laboratory

Plant Biologist Awarded Packard Fellowship

  • by Andy Fell
  • October 15, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
  • University
Doorway

Historians to Digitize Endangered Peruvian Archive

  • by Kathleen Holder
  • October 09, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Trees in red, orange, yellow and green

A Living, Learning Laboratory for All

  • by Chloe Archambault
  • September 24, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • University
Jupiter

Meteorites Show Transport of Material in Early Solar System

  • by Andy Fell
  • September 08, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
Latino grads celebrate.

UC Davis Receives NSF Funding for Engineering, Sciences, Artificial Intelligence for HSIs

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • September 08, 2020
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
  • Society, Arts & Culture

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