Science & Technology

UC Davis professors and alumnus explain the weather pattern hitting the Bay Area and Central Valley   By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org    To begin the new year, high-impact rainstorms have struck the northern coasts of California, leading to seemingly endless precipitation in the Bay Area and Central Valley. Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at […]

The center’s large-scale imaging abilities at the facility contributed to rocket testing and completion of the Artemis I mission   By LILLY ACKERMAN — science@theaggie.org    UC Davis’s McClellan Nuclear Research Center (MNRC) played an important role in NASA’s recent Artemis I mission, which launched the unmanned Orion spacecraft into space to test its safety. […]

EchoPixel’s Holographic Therapeutic Guidance allows physicians to view and manipulate a 3D map during procedures   By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org    For the first time, UC Davis Health surgeons conducted a heart procedure technologically assisted by EchoPixel’s 4D holographic software called Holographic Therapeutic Guidance (HTG). According to the company’s website, their “software platform is […]

Mixing DNA genotypes at coral nurseries can help prevent disease outbreak and spread   By LILLY ACKERMAN — science@theaggie.org    A recent study from the UC Davis Department of Evolution and Ecology has found that placing corals of different genotypes together at a nursery can improve the population’s overall resistance to disease.  The study researched […]

The health of eelgrass communities, a marine plant forest in the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, are of concern due to the changing global climate   By YASH RATHI — science@theaggie.org    On Aug. 1, a new collaborative study between UC Davis and other research institutions was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of […]

UC Davis graduate students help identify markets for sustainable and healthful foods into the future   By LILLY ACKERMAN — science@theaggie.org    A new partnership between UC Davis’s Graduate School of Management, the UC Davis Innovation Institute for Food and Health and venture capital firm Barnstorm Foundry has been formed to identify market spaces for […]

Post-COVID-19 involves an array of symptoms that can persist long after the infection’s disappearance   By LILLY ACKERMAN — science@theaggie.org    UC Davis Health’s Post-COVID-19 Clinic has been providing treatment options for patients suffering from lingering symptoms after a previous infection with COVID-19, a condition colloquially referred to as post-COVID or long COVID.  According to […]

Snakeskin has frictional properties that can be applied to surfaces of large column structures to securely support large buildings   By YASH RATHI — science@theaggie.org    At the UC Davis Center for Geotechnical Modeling, researchers used the facility’s large geotechnical centrifuge to test a design inspired by the unique properties of snakeskin. According to their […]

Researchers at UC Davis determine that the lightness of water vapor should not be excluded from climate models By LILLY ACKERMAN — science@theaggie.org    A recent study from researchers in the UC Davis Department of Land, Air and Water Resources has determined that the lightness of water vapor in the atmosphere has significant impacts on […]

Researchers at UC Davis use chewed plants to test gorillas for human viruses By LILLY ACKERMAN— science@theaggie.org    A recent study by faculty at UC Davis School of Veterinary Medicine’s One Health Institute has found no evidence of human herpesviruses (human HSV-1) in mountain gorilla populations. The study did, however, find a new noninvasive sampling […]

The study sheds light on characteristics of the common ancestor By YASH RATHI — science@theaggie.org  All living mammals — from giant blue whales in the Pacific Ocean to small squirrels scurrying on campus — all have a common ancestor that existed 180 million years ago. There isn’t much information available about that common ancestor, but […]

Specific regions in our brains use synchronized brain waves to create neural connections between two seemingly-unrelated entities By BRANDON NGUYEN — science@theaggie.org    Context matters when perceiving faces; our perception of a person with a knife at a birthday party drastically differs from one in a dark alley at night. Recently, a UC Davis Health […]