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Broken hearts at February Science Caf
2+ mon, 3+ week ago (123+ words) Davis Science Caf" is back Wednesday, Feb. 11, from 5: 30 to 7 p. m. at G Street Wunder Bar, 228 G St. in downtown Davis. Each month, Professor Jared Shaw with the UC Davis Department of Chemistry hosts. .. Professor Crystal'Ripplinger of the UC Davis department of…...
Toxicology center-stage at Science Caf
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (124+ words) Davis Science Caf" is back Wednesday, March 11, from 5: 30 to 7 p. m. at G Street Wunder Bar, 228 G St. in downtown Davis. Each month, Professor Jared Shaw with the UC Davis Department of Chemistry hosts. .. Davis Science Caf" is back Wednesday, March 11, from…...
UCD: Lessons from the Caldor Fire's Christmas Valley "miracle'
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (362+ words) UC Davis forest ecologist Hugh Safford looks over Echo Lake, near the Caldor Fire burn area. The state of the burn scar in 2025 from the 2021 Caldor Fire in the Lake Tahoe Basin. In what came to be called the "Christmas…...
Sparse snowpack fuels concern over fast-approaching fire season
2+ week, 3+ day ago (766+ words) California clocked its second-worst snowpack on record Wednesday, a potentially troubling signal ahead for fire season. It's an alarming end to a winter that saw abnormally dry conditions briefly wiped from California's drought map in January, for the first time…...
At the Pond: Birds are out there building their nests
4+ day, 2+ hour ago (565+ words) The first goslings have been spotted at the West Pond." A pair of Cooper's hawks are nesting at the West Pond. The golden-crowned sparrow's song sounds like"oh deeer mee and was spotted at the First Saturday Bird Stroll. This…...
Per Capita: Now time for some bad news
4+ day, 6+ hour ago (390+ words) My last column was fun to write. It was full of good news and optimism from the closest thing we have to a climate guru, Bill Mc Kibben. There is more good news to report but before I get too…...
Bohart Museum sponsors annual bumblebee contest
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (159+ words) Who will find and photograph the first bumblebee of the year? The sixth annual Robbin Thorp Memorial First-Bumble Bee-of-the-Year Contest will begin at 12: 01 a. m. , Jan. 1, 2026. The first person to. .. A 30-year member of the UC Davis faculty, he retired in 1994 but…...
UCD studies plant biomanufacturing on Earth and in space
7+ mon, 4+ day ago (404+ words) Aquatic plants grown in a lab." Researchers at UC"Davis"earned a $3 million National Science Foundation grant to develop new technologies and workforce training programs to grow plants in low-resource environments on Earth and in space." The"UC"Davis"team…...
UCD: Newly recognized pathway could protect diabetics from hypoglycemia
6+ mon, 1+ week ago (540+ words) A new study by UC Davis shows how cells work together to avoid a sudden drop in blood sugar. Understanding these feedback loops could improve the lives of people with diabetes and help them avoid dangerous hypoglycemia. The work was…...
UCD: Some birds learn more from siblings than parents
6+ mon, 4+ day ago (550+ words) Great tit fledglings work on solving a puzzle box as part of a UC Davis study. The birds could solve the puzzles by sliding a door to the left or right to reach a tray of mealworms. A juvenile great…...