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Thursday, January 15, 2026

Science & Technology

Concentrating on patient satisfaction not always better

Patient satisfaction, as well as good doctor-patient relationships, have long been indicators of quality health care. Doctors place emphasis on this relationship with the...

The Triple Helix combines science and society

Several UC Davis students are working to set up a new student organization on campus which would be a chapter of an international organization...

True or false

Just about everyone has heard the saying “Don't go to sleep angry,” but how much truth is there behind this adage? Recent studies have...

Keeping babies cool

Doctors at the UC Davis Medical Center have been using a technique for helping children born with brain damage. In a deviation from past...

Lasers create 3D maps of earthquake faults

Geologists at UC Davis have a tool at their fingertips that puts everyday laser rangefinders to shame. Their technology allows them to take 100,000...

Researchers at UC Davis make progress in salmonella vaccine

A team of researchers at UC Davis led by Stephen McSorley, in conjunction with collaborators at UC Irvine, identified antigens on salmonella bacteria. This...

Column: Popular science

Scientists have a love-hate relationship with science books meant for the general public. On the one hand, making science reachable to the general public...

Protein plays DNA matchmaker role

Researchers have directly observed an essential three dimensional DNA damage repair process using a special microscopy technique. Anthony L. Forget, who now works at MIT...

Column: Flower love

Flowers are the iconic Valentine’s Day gift. If a person gets nothing else for their significant other, especially since college students are usually on...

Biodiversity Museum Day highlights campus collections

This last Sunday, UC Davis hosted its first Biodiversity Museum Day. “We haven’t had a turn out like this since Picnic Day,” said Lynn Kimsley,...

Evolutionary “founder effect” detected

Thomas Schoener and David Spiller, both professors in the UC Davis Evolution and Ecology Department, are among the co-authors of a new study appearing...

UC Davis fights back against food poisoning

Over the past 60 years, E. coli has been the primary model organism for gene sequencing and recombinant DNA experiments. While the majority of...

Blast from the past

From using solar energy to replace fossil fuels to using robots to perform everyday tasks, science looks often into the future to solve the...

A tablet for less

Utility and leisure may not come together at the same time when the consumer’s most important priority is budget. One great option for consumers...

Column: What denial?

When you think of how science is supposed to work, what do you imagine? It’s not all lasers and collecting animals — what people think...