Science & Technology

This May, UC Davis will open a $1 billion interdisciplinary and industry-academic collaborative space in Sacramento  BY NAREN KRISHNA JEGAN In 2017, Sacramento Mayor Darrell Steinberg and UC Davis Chancellor Gary May established a vision to create an innovative hub where university researchers, students, industry partners, entrepreneurs and community members could collaborate side by side […]

A recent study identifies neural pathways driving anti-anxiety effects associated with psychedelics   By KATELYN BURNS— science@theaggie.org   Psychedelics are a class of hallucinogenic drugs that can cause an altered mental state. While there’s currently very little known about the mechanisms of these drugs and the extent of their effects, there has been interest in […]

Guest speaker Jackson O’Donnell from UC Santa Cruz shares the ongoing research on dark matter studies   By EKATERINA MEDVEDEVA — science@theaggie.org You, me and everything that we are used to seeing around us is made up of matter. So is the gas and celestial bodies in outer space, like stars; In fact, we are […]

UC Davis researchers invent a new method for maintaining the efficiency of platinum catalysts   By EKATERINA MEDVEDEVA — science@theaggie.org   If you have taken an introductory chemistry course before, then you have probably heard of catalysts — compounds that lower the amount of activation energy needed for a reaction to occur by offering an […]

Researchers at the UC Davis Institute of Psychedelics and Neurotherapeutics have finished the total synthesis of a scarce, naturally found anti-addiction/antidepressant agent   By NAREN KRISHNA JEGAN — science@theaggie.org   Ibogaine, a psychoactive compound derived from African plants like the iboga shrub (Tabernanthe iboga) and the small-fruited voacanga tree (Voacanga africana), has long been recognized […]

The Mount Lyell shrew has been photographed live for the first time   By KATELYN BURNS— science@theaggie.org   The Mount Lyell shrew is a small mammal endemic to a tiny area in the Sierra Nevada. The species is highly vulnerable to climate change, as noted in a 2015 Climate Change Vulnerability Assessment by UC Davis. […]

The new research may pave the way toward mass production of quantum devices   By EKATERINA MEDVEDEVA— science@theaggie.org It is quite hard to break down something fundamental with a single atom, let alone with a subatomic particle. However, classical mechanics is an exception. On very small scales, it is the laws of quantum mechanics that […]

Let’s dive into the processes going on inside one the most unique labs at UC Davis and in the U.S.   By EKATERINA MEDVEDEVA — science@theaggie.org   In the southeast part of the UC Davis campus, amid numerous complexes dedicated to sciences, there stands an inconspicuous yellowish building named the Jungerman Hall. Despite its plain […]

International AI company reveals a smarter challenger to ChatGPT and major AI corporations   By NAREN KRISHNA JEGAN — science@theaggie.org Artificial Intelligence (AI) is defined as “technology that enables computers and machines to simulate human learning, comprehension, problem solving, decision making, creativity and autonomy.” From being a vision in the 1900s as a way to […]

Cnidarians are well known for their “stinging cells” called cnidocytes   By KATELYN BURNS— science@theaggie.org   Cnidocytes are known as the “stinging cells” of Cnidarians, consisting of jellyfish, sea anemones and corals. If you have ever been stung by a jellyfish, that was a cnidocyte. All Cnidarians have cnidocytes, and these cells are incredibly complex. […]

Researchers from North Carolina State University have developed wearable technology that generates and captures electricity while increasing comfort   By NAREN KRISHNA JEGAN — science@theaggie.org   Most of us have heard of fast fashion, which is a business model where companies rapidly produce and sell current and trendy clothes. But have you heard of smart […]

UC Davis researchers use machine learning to study perovskite solar cells’ properties and advance them   By EKATERINA MEDVEDEVA— science@theaggie.org Have you ever wondered what solar cells are made out of? Most of the ones that you see nowadays are composed of silicon. They have been the standard of solar cells for over a decade […]