1+ day, 21+ hour ago  (255+ words) An artificial intelligence framework that suggests just one to three ingredient swaps can make meals meaningfully more nutritious and less expensive, according to a new study published May 28 in the open-access journal PLOS Digital Health by Trevor Chan and Ilias…...

2+ day, 18+ hour ago  (579+ words) The research directly challenges the Lambda-cold dark matter model, the standard cosmological model of the Big Bang. Study corresponding author'Blake Temple, a distinguished professor emeritus of mathematics at UC Davis, compared the standard cosmological model to a pencil standing on…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (338+ words) Among dog breeds, Nova Scotia Duck Tolling Retrievers (tollers) have an unusually high rate of Addison's disease, a condition in which the adrenal glands do not produce enough hormones, notably cortisol and aldosterone. In humans, Addison's disease is thought to…...

2+ day, 17+ hour ago  (408+ words) The Royal Society has elected Simon R. Cherry, a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of biomedical engineering and radiology at the University of California, Davis, to the level of fellow." Election to fellow is given to the world's most eminent scientists, engineers and…...

10+ mon, 2+ week ago  (548+ words) A leadership search is underway at UC Davis for a Vice Chancellor of Human Health Sciences based on our Sacramento campus. This role and the CEO role were previously held by David Lubarsky, who retired from the university in February....

6+ mon, 3+ week ago  (720+ words) The food drives held each fall on campus have taken on additional importance this year as members of the UC Davis community face uncertainty over whether federally funded food assistance will continue, and there are numerous ways for faculty and…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (1155+ words) As wildflowers go, the mountain jewelflower is demure, clever and quietly unbreakable. It has spread across many of California's iconic landscapes, from Sonoma wine country to the oak-dotted foothills, even over the Sierra Crest, where snow covers the ground during…...

3+ day, 19+ hour ago  (362+ words) At last week's Memorial Day Ceremony at UC Davis, tributes to the 136 Gold Star Aggies who have died in military service were all around: in the 136 flags placed on the lawn outside the Memorial Union, in the ceremonial reading of…...

4+ day ago  (1488+ words) Southern California is emerging from yet another round of wildfires just as the wildfire season gets underway. It's been less than 18 months since catastrophic wildfires hit the communities of Altadena and Pacific Palisades." The lessons from those twin 2025 fires are…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago  (712+ words) A 2021 outbreak of leptospirosis that sickened more than 200 dogs in Los Angeles County reveals critical gaps in vaccination practices and raises broader concerns about the spread of the disease between animals and people, according to new research led by the…...