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UC Davis researchers have developed a way for food banks to evaluate the way they promote nutrition and healthy. Here, people load food donations into cardboard boxes in a warehouse. (Getty Images)

Can Food Banks Better Promote Nutrition and Health?

by Amy Quinton
March 13, 2023

We'll soon spring forward into Daylight Saving Time. A sleep medicine expert says there is a reason it takes our bodies so long to adjust.

‘Unfold’ Podcast Bonus Episode: Is Springing Forward Bad for Your Health?

by Amy Quinton
March 07, 2023

fog over coastal mountains in northern California

Climate Trends in the West, Today and 11,000 Years Ago

by Kat Kerlin
February 27, 2023

A bus drives down a road surrounded by bicycles

$20M Grant Renewal for National Center for Sustainable Transportation

by Samuel Chiu
February 23, 2023

A sheep's face with some sheep behind it

Surprising Benefits of Using Sheep as Lawn Mowers

by Karen Nikos-Rose
February 21, 2023

Semi-transparent white tendrils spread from a clear body with some colored dots inside against a black background.

Receptor Location Matters for Psychedelic Drug Effects

by Andy Fell
February 16, 2023

Researcher poses next to fish tan

Sloan Fellowships for Animal Behaviorist, Chemist and Mathematician

by Andy Fell
February 16, 2023

Two jaguars, caught with a camera trap survey, walk in Amazon forest

Amazon Mammals Threatened by Climate Change

by Kat Kerlin
February 15, 2023

male giraffe performs flehmen behavior as female pees

Heavy Necking: New Insights Into the Sex Life of Giraffes

by Kat Kerlin
February 08, 2023

Students view computer screens as they work

UC Davis Team Develops Online Tool to View General Plans Across California

by Tiffany Dobbyn
February 06, 2023

P-22 stares into remote camera on the trail in dark woods

Mountain Lion Mortality Maps Show Rough Road for Cougars

by Kat Kerlin
February 02, 2023

Colored image of nerve cells.

UC Davis Establishes Institute for Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics

by Andy Fell
February 02, 2023

Huaijun Zhou and Pamela Ronald headshots, UC Davis faculty

UC Davis Agricultural Researchers Win National, International Awards

by Emily C. Dooley
January 23, 2023

Firefighter walks along highway with flames to his side during Creek Fire response in 2022.

Unprecedented Levels of High-Severity Fire Burn in Sierra Nevada Forests

by Kat Kerlin
January 20, 2023

Blue rounded cylinders against a yellow/orange background.

Cyborg Cells Could Be Tools for Health and Environment

by Andy Fell
January 18, 2023