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Women Gain More Political and Economic Power, but Gender Gap Persists

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • August 09, 2019
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California Roadkill Report Maps Costs, Hot Spots and Solutions

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • August 07, 2019
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Hydra

Mapping Cells in the Immortal Regenerating Hydra

  • by Greg Watry
  • July 25, 2019
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Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Explore Secrets of the Universe in Spectacular IMAX Movie

  • by Andy Fell
  • July 05, 2019
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Artwork of Neanderthal and modern human chromosomes

Dark Centers of Chromosomes Reveal Ancient DNA

  • by Andy Fell
  • June 18, 2019
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  • Human & Animal Health
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TB 9

Historical Highlights of the UC Davis Department of Art and TB 9, 1958-76

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • June 10, 2019
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  • Society, Arts & Culture
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A Sojourner’s Path: From a Temporary Building to the World and Back

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • June 10, 2019
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Dark matter in the universe

A New Candidate for Dark Matter and a Way to Detect It

  • by Andy Fell
  • June 10, 2019
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  • Science & Technology
Salish sea

Where on Earth Is the Salish Sea?

  • by Justin Cox
  • May 16, 2019
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UC Davis chemist Marie Heffern is pioneering a new field, metalloendocrinology, exploring how metals such as iron, zinc and copp

Metals Influence C-Peptide Hormone Related to Insulin

  • by Andy Fell
  • May 16, 2019
  • Driven by Curiosity
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Exploring the frontiers of mathematics

  • by Andy Fell
  • April 26, 2019
  • Driven by Curiosity
Programmable self-assembling DNA

Computer Scientists Create Programmable Self-Assembling DNA

  • by Andy Fell
  • March 20, 2019
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Power grid

Exotic Synchronization Patterns Emerge in a Simple Network

  • by Andy Fell
  • March 07, 2019
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
Two people with horse in zebra-striped blanket in Britain.

How Zebra Stripes Disrupt Flies’ Flight Patterns

  • by Kat Kerlin
  • February 20, 2019
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Environment
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Heart in book

Is There a Science to Romantic Love?

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • February 07, 2019
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  • Society, Arts & Culture
Marine reptile fossils

Researchers Describe New Reptile Platypus From the Early Triassic

  • by Andy Fell
  • January 24, 2019
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
Star and protoplanetary disk

Mantle Neon Illuminates Earth’s Formation

  • by Andy Fell
  • December 05, 2018
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Moon jellyfish

First Jellyfish Genome Reveals Ancient Beginnings of Complex Body Plan

  • by Becky Oskin
  • December 03, 2018
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Refugees reclaim human rights with technology

  • by Julia Ann Easley and Joe Proudman
  • November 27, 2018
  • Driven by Curiosity
Drinking soda

Sugar-Sweetened Beverages Are Harmful to Health and May Be Addictive, Researchers Suggest

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • November 19, 2018
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  • Food & Agriculture
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From Molecules to Minds

  • by David Slipher
  • November 07, 2018
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
aerial view of earth from space

Researchers have forged a path from UC Davis to space

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • October 16, 2018
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Science & Technology
bulldozer rolling over pavement

Pavement Research Center keeps California on the road

  • by Andy Fell
  • October 11, 2018
  • Driven by Curiosity
Kimbrell with fruit flies

Fruit Flies Raised in Space by UC Davis Researcher Show Weakened Immunity

  • by Karen Nikos-Rose
  • October 08, 2018
  • Driven by Curiosity
  • Human & Animal Health
  • Society, Arts & Culture
Hadron collider

Melting Protons at CERN

  • by Andy Fell
  • September 05, 2018
  • Driven by Curiosity

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