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Balancing act: How UC Davis contributes to nation’s largest marine protected area network
If one were to set aside an area of the ocean that was off limits for fishing, how would that affect the population of, say, abalone, rockfish or some other fish species? How much catch would be lost or gained …
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UC Davis biosci major wins Hughes fellowship for grad school
Congratulations to Brenda Marin-Rodriguez, an undergraduate student in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, who has been awarded one of nine Gilliam Fellowships for Advanced Study by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. The fellowships provide $46,500 per year for …
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UC Davis Physics, Milton Gardner and the President of China
Wednesday afternoon I joined a delegation of Chinese journalists, including the China News Service and People’s Daily, visiting UC Davis as they met with faculty and students of the Physics Department. Earlier, the group had lunch with Winston Ko, dean …
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Ithaca school robotics team builds augmented reality sandbox on UC Davis design
A high school robotics team in Ithaca, New York has built their own augmented reality sandbox, based on the model built by Oliver Kreylos and colleagues at UC Davis’s Keck Center for Active Visualization in Earth Sciences (KeckCAVES). A video …
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UC Davis tech incubator admits three new startups
Three new UC Davis startup companies working in clean hydrogen production, chip-scale magnetic sensors and tissue engineering have been admitted to the Engineering Translational Technology Center at the College of Engineering. Woodall Tech, Inc. Founded by Jerry Woodall, a distinguished …
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Triassic “Jaws” found
We’re going to need a bigger boat: palaeontologists including UC Davis postdoc Lars Schmitz have described a 30-foot long ichthyosaur — an air-breathing, dolphin-like marine reptile — with five-inch long razor teeth that was likely the top predator in the …
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His “hoot-dash” brings all the girls to the yard
Anyone who’s spent time near male peacocks knows that they can be noisy birds. At the height of his courtship dance, the male gives a distinct two-part whoop before leaping on the female. “Peacocks have a number of different courtship …
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Garen Wintemute on preventing gun violence
UC Davis emergency physician Garen Wintemute is one of the nation’s leading experts on gun violence, and has long argued that it should be treated as a public health problem. In this Q&A with The Nation he says that the …
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Filling the tank at dark matter detector experiment
Contributed by the LUX Collaboration An experiment to look for one of nature’s most elusive subatomic particles is finally under water, in a stainless steel tank nearly a mile underground beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota. The Large Underground …
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Pigs join the genome club
The genome of the domestic pig is published in the journal Nature today, Nov. 14. The pig genome was completed by an international team led by researchers at Wageningen University in The Netherlands, the Univesity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and the …
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