Science & Technology

While most people have no problem drinking a nice cold mojito, a young dachshund puppy named Mojito was having trouble swallowing anything at all until he underwent a revolutionary procedure to save his life.

UC Davis is working to help rectify the damage done by the oil spill that occurred in the Gulf Coast over three weeks ago – a cause of great concern among the scientific community due to its potential impact on wildlife.

I would be a terrible astronaut.

This past weekend, limnology students partook on an adventure-filled annual excursion to Castle Lake.

Last week marked the final round of the eighth annual U.S. Imagine Cup. The competition for high school, undergraduate and graduate students combined their passion and creativity in business and technology to tackle global issues.

Toddlers harmed from too much exposure to TV

Politics, smolitics. Forget causes like budget cuts and education spending. Nominate your favorite microorganism for California’s state microbe and you could make history! Microbes are itsy-bitsy organisms, like bacteria or fungi, which can only be seen under a microscope. They are usually unicellular and live everywhere – from your swimming pool to your small intestine. Microbes may not be the cuddliest mascots, but they are the biggest gang of living things on Earth.

Earlier this month, four undergraduates, one grad student and a professor, all from the atmospheric science department, launched a weather balloon 65,000 feet into the air to take pictures and receive weather data. The team not only sent up a camera but a radiosonde – a device that records temperature, pressure and dew point. With this, the team was able to gather a profile of the atmosphere as well as images – a first for this kind of experiment.

A new partnership formed by the UC Davis Cancer Center and the Jackson Laboratory Cancer Center (JAX) could help find better and more effective cures to cancer. This recent consortium will allow for a greater array of testing, as researchers from both institutes will have larger quantities of mice and tumors to test.

When we hear Smashmouth’s “All Star,” our minds become flooded with memories from that awkward middle school dance or those Friday nights hanging out with friends. A particular song can take individuals back to their past almost instantly. But how does our brain form this connection between music and memory?

David Lavine

You know that city-mouse/country-mouse story? Well, I feel like country-mouse right now. I’ve been interning this quarter in Washington, D.C. – a bustling city 2,388 miles from dear old Davis. Traveling across this city has made me realize that I take a huge part of modern life for granted. There’s a great invention that makes it possible for me to travel underground on the subway and take an elevator 20 floors above street-level. This technology is concrete. It’s the gray, coarse, wonderful material we build our lives on.