Science & Technology

One third of the world’s population lacks adequate access to healthcare or medicine. According to the mobile statistics company MobiThinking, nearly 90 percent of the world’s population has access to cell phones, many of which are smartphones. So how can we use the high number of cell phones to help increase the number of people […]

Nematode research is an exciting field of study in which there still remain many rich veins of research waiting to be tapped. There is a vast diversity among the world’s various nematode species, many of which have yet to be described, according to UC Davis professor and researcher Edwin Lewis. Lewis is a member of […]

At the University of California, Riverside, three scholars have begun a research project testing – for the first time – the use of facial recognition software to identify unknown subjects of portrait and sculpture art. The project is called FACES (Faces, Art and Computerized Evaluation Systems). Project director and UC Riverside art history professor Conrad […]

The annual UC Davis Horse Barn Production Sale is coming up on June 23, and that means it is time for internship students to part ways with the horses they have spent every day with for the last six months. Although the internship is the culmination of the work done by the internship students, it […]

A new study conducted by the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) identified unmet needs among African American breast cancer survivors. The results of this “first-of-its-kind” study may provide information on how to better treat specific populations in the United States. The study, “The unmet needs of African American women with breast cancer,” looked into […]

Mental illness can sometimes be a tricky topic to discuss. Though the stigma around mental illness has dissipated in the past few decades as understanding of its nature has grown, there can still be misunderstandings about mental illness: its causes, its symptoms and the people with them. Even writing about them is tricky; in this […]

A new survey study from UC San Diego shows that distracted driving is highly prevalent among college students. Researchers found that along with frequent cell phone usage while driving, college students overestimate their driving abilities in comparison to their peers. About 5,000 participants from nine colleges in the San Diego area completed the study. The study […]

Researchers at UC Davis have discovered a key tool they believe helps sperm and eggs develop exactly 23 chromosomes each. This work, which could lead to significant insight into fertility as well as spontaneous miscarriages, cancer and other developmental disorders, was published on April 13 in the journal Cell. Normally, if all goes according to […]

Barobo, Inc., a robotics company founded by UC Davis mechanical and aerospace engineering professor Harry Cheng and his former graduate student, Graham Ryland, has been awarded a $500,000 grant from the National Science Foundation (NSF) small business innovation research program for their small, versatile modular robot. Cheng and Ryland will be using the grant money […]

A new type of high-rate anaerobic digester system created by a UC Davis professor was given its first commercial application recently at a packaging plant in Sacramento. The digester allows organic solid waste to be recycled more efficiently. Ruihong Zhang, a professor in the department of biological and agricultural engineering, created the process in the […]

Introduction I, a microbiology major, live in an apartment with a chemistry major. She often complains about the length of her lab reports — sometimes in the hard work required, occasionally in the context of how much paper and ink that it uses (as much as 10 to 15 pages for the more hellish labs). […]

Whether cheering on your favorite NBA team, wearing your university letters or hugging strangers at a political rally, it feels undeniably good to be part of a group.  A university student might make a new friend while traveling thousands of miles away simply because they both go to the same school, and you might get […]