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Thursday, December 11, 2025

Science & Technology

Museum brings science, art and SO-IL

In the face of economic duress, a rather infamous topic of discussion for past years has been, and continues to be, the status of...

Smart Materials

Editor’s note: This article is part two in a series on graphene. Part 1 was published April 18, 2013. When we last spoke about...

Tech Tips: Never lose your keys

Do you find yourself perpetually losing your keys and getting locked out of your house or apartment? It’s even more troublesome when your roommates...

This Week in Science

Cancer: How do we stop ovarian cancer? We bling the ovaries, obviously. Researchers from the Mayo Clinic have recently discovered that gold (nano) particles...

Maybe she’s born with it, maybe it’s metal poisoning

From what is virtually birth to death, American women have been, and continue to be, bombarded with imagery introduced by multi-billion dollar cosmetic companies....

Tech Tips: Show your moves

From exercise fanatics to active everyday businessmen, everyone enjoys a good step counter. Thanks to modern technology, people can track their progress with programs...

Column: The Space Blogger

On May 12, 2013, Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield, captivated the internet world with a musical tribute to David Bowie’s “Space Oddity” played in commemoration...

This Week in Science

Forensics: A recent study on the brains of patients diagnosed with depression has accidentally uncovered a method of accurately determining someone’s time of death....

Tech Tips: Music for free

The Problem: Music is expensive. Let’s face it, everything is expensive. But when subsisting on a diet of ramen noodles and free pizza from that...

This Week in Science

Security: For those who believe in government conspiracies, here’s a good one for you. There has long been talk in the internet security community to...

A new green paradigm

UC Davis continuously pushes toward sustainability in many aspects both on campus and off, including energy conservation, waste reduction, efficient transportation and others. UC...

UC Davis, LEEDing the way to a brighter future

Upon the very first glimpse of the UC Davis campus on the central valley skyline, it’s likely that freeway passerby and prospective and current...

Designing for the future

UC Davis has been considered environmentally conscious for a long time, a reputation that seems to be deserved. The school and city’s shared enthusiasm...

Ocean spray more than just a cooling mist

Most of us have probably been exposed to the term ocean-spray at some point in our lives. Maybe we associate this title with a...

Column: Science, space and a dash of philosophy

One way of thinking about the universe is as a story of how things continue to persist. Picture it like a cosmic, chronologically arranged...