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Watching Curiosity touch down on Mars last night was a compelling piece of live news — without any need for intrusive commentary, gauzy biographies, advertising or a time delay (other than the few minutes it takes for radio waves to …
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Contributed by Kat Kerlin The rapid pace of projected climate change may force people to choose between witnessing extinctions and intentionally relocating threatened species in an effort to protect them, says a new UC Davis-led study published in the August, …
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Jonathan Eisen of the UC Davis Genome Center was invited to speak at the recent TEDMED meeting in Washington D.C. and video of his talk has now been posted online. While much of medicine has obsessed over cleanliness and removing …
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Quite a crowd showed up in Lot 2 yesterday afternoon to watch the transit of Venus. Geology graduate student John Peterson had set up his telescope, with a special solar filter, and invited others to come and watch. Peterson, in …
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Keep those glasses from the May 20 eclipse, because you’ll need them for an even rarer celestial event: on June 5 (in North America) the planet Venus will pass across the Sun. Transits of Venus occur in pairs a few …
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Pulled from the comments section — a few photos compiled by the good people of the UC Davis physics department. Full set here. Photograph by Professor John Conway, taken in Marysville, CA.               Professor …
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UC Davis physicist Marusa Bradac took this fabulous timelapse of the May 20 solar eclipse from Tahoe City. Thanks Marusa for sharing!  

UC Davis geology professor Qing-Zhu Yin will give a public talk, “The “Lotus Valley” Meteorite: What does it mean to science? What does it mean to our valley? What can it mean to you?” on Sunday, May 20. Where: Gold …
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Harris Lewin, vice chancellor for research and professor of evolution and ecology at the University of California, Davis, has been elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the highest honors given to a scientist or engineer in the …
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Ventria Bioscience, based in Fort Collins, Colo. with manufacturing facilities in Kansas, has announced a  successful completion phase 2 clinical trial of its lead therapeutic candidate, VEN100, which is based on an antibacterial compound from human breastmilk grown in genetically …
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