From Pole to Pole, Underwater Robots Help Predict How and When Ice Shelves Collapse To outer space and the deep ocean, add “beneath the ice” to the list of rarely... Read More
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Startup Uses Friendly Chat Bot Named Wazlo to Connect Workers with Employers
Aj Cheline
May 25, 2017
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By Lisa Howard May 25, 2017 UC Davis students hope to use artificial intelligence to change how employees are recruited What if, instead of filling out a boring online form... Read More
Invasion of the Poultry Manure Microbes. Or Maybe Not.
Aj Cheline
May 25, 2017
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By Lisa Howard February 27, 2017 Adding compost to soil introduces needed carbon and nutrients, but less is known about what happens to the existing microbiome. Can microbes within the... Read More
5 Things You Probably Don’t Know About the Soil Microbiome
Aj Cheline
May 1, 2017
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By Lisa Howard March 15, 2017 1. Soil Actually Has a Microbiome Gut bacteria have been getting a lot of attention lately (yogurt, anyone?) but it turns out the soil... Read More
Plant Genes May Lack Off Switch, But Have Volume Control
Aj Cheline
May 1, 2017
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By Jenna Gallegos Scientists at the University of California, Davis have discovered that DNA sequences thought to be essential for gene activity can be expendable. Sequences once called junk... Read More
‘OneClimate’ a Call to Arms Fusing UC Davis’ Collective Strength in Climate Science
Aj Cheline
May 1, 2017
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Throughout UC Davis’ history, the university has brought scientists across disciplines to work together on the challenge of growing food. Now, Ben Houlton, director of the John Muir Institute of... Read More
Uncovering the Hidden Life of Soil
Aj Cheline
February 27, 2017
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Microbes in Soil Are Essential for Life and May Help Mitigate Climate Change By Lisa Howard February 27, 2017 Kate Scow, a professor of soil science and soil microbial ecology... Read More
Flour & Oil: How a UC Davis Researcher is Helping Improve Health in Developing Countries
Aj Cheline
February 21, 2017
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By Lisa Howard February 22, 2017 Reina Engle-Stone was halfway through her biology degree at Cornell University when she discovered global nutrition. Her introduction was a nutritional epidemiology class, and... Read More
KeckCAVES Virtual Reality Software Now for Gaming Headsets
Aj Cheline
January 25, 2017
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Virtual reality software used by scientists at the University of California, Davis, to study everything from earthquakes to molecular biology in a 3-D “cave” can now run on some off-the-shelf... Read More