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Chemists Provide New Evidence of Two Supercooled Liquid Water States

by Greg Watry
February 09, 2026

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Biologists and Engineers Follow Goopy Clues to Plant-Wilting Bacteria

by Andy Fell
January 23, 2026

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What Happens Inside a Black Hole?

by Greg Watry
January 21, 2026

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Tiny Earthquakes Reveal Hidden Faults Under Northern California

by Andy Fell
January 15, 2026

A study participant listens to music while in rooms flooded with colors of blue, musted, orangish and red

Lighting Strongly Influences People’s Experience While Listening to Music, a New Study Suggests

by Karen Nikos-Rose
December 09, 2025

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Extracting Rare Earth Elements from U.S. Wastewaters

by Neelanjana Gautam
December 02, 2025

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LUX-ZEPLIN Latest: No Dark Matter Yet, But a Close Look at Solar Neutrinos

by Lauren Biron
December 01, 2025

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Looking Inside Icy Moons

by Andy Fell
November 24, 2025

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How Earth’s Greatest Extinction Really Happened

by Greg Watry
November 21, 2025

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Rocks on Faults Can Heal Following Seismic Movement

by Andy Fell
November 19, 2025

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What’s at Stake with Federal Research Funding Cuts

by UC Davis Staff
October 15, 2025

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Astronomers Find Mystery Dark Object in Distant Universe

by Andy Fell
October 09, 2025

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UC Davis Researchers Look at How the Brain Prioritizes What We See

by Alex Russell, College of Letters and Science
September 23, 2025

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Hayabusa-2 Sample Return Mission Suggests Protracted Wetter Asteroids

by Andy Fell
September 16, 2025

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How Did Animals Eat Before Mouths?

by Greg Watry
September 12, 2025

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UC Davis Study Reveals Alarming Browser Tracking by GenAI Assistants

by Jessica Heath
August 18, 2025

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Nowcasting and the Kamchatka Earthquake

by Andy Fell
August 07, 2025

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National Science Foundation Awards UC Davis $5 Million for Artificial Intelligence Hub

by Andy Fell
July 29, 2025

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Molecular Simulations Show Graphite ‘Hijacks’ Diamond Formation Through Unexpected Crystallization Pathways

by Greg Watry
July 09, 2025

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UC Davis and Proteus Space to Launch First-Ever Dynamic Digital Twin into Space

by Jessica Heath
June 25, 2025

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Big Bang! Business Competition Celebrates 25 Years of Empowering Entrepreneurs

by Angela Lindley
June 24, 2025

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First Images Revealed From Vera C. Rubin Observatory

by Greg Watry
June 23, 2025

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Tackling Nuclear Waste Challenges One Atom at a Time

by Jessica Heath
June 09, 2025

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The Singular Mathematics of Daily Life

by Greg Watry
June 02, 2025

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City-Dwelling Monarch Butterflies Stay Put

by Liana Wait
May 28, 2025

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