The soil roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans has just 959 cells and a body that is mostly gut and reproductive organs. Yet its ...

While photos of littered beaches and floating garbage patches are unsettling, perhaps the most problematic plastic is barely ...

Rice is a staple food crop for more than half the world’s population, but most farmers don’t grow high-yielding varieties ...

Mountain lions in greater Los Angeles are proactively shifting their activity to avoid interacting with cyclists, hikers, ...

From sports and history to mystery and comics, this year featured books for everyone. Our annual roundup features even more ...

Consumers may have noticed a recent trend in food and beverage products labeled probiotic or prebiotic. The products often ...

Two teams of Aggies are headed for postseason play, and a third looks likely. The UC Davis men’s soccer team won the Big West ...

In his first-year seminar dubbed “Could a Robot Ever Be Conscious?” Professor Richard Huskey guides students to discuss ...

Carolyn Lundquist, Ph.D. ’00, prompted by a high school career test, studied communication at UCLA, until an elective ...

UC Davis Safety Services will establish a Campus Emergency Response Team (CERT) in 2025, and now is the time to ...

A year after an outbreak of H5N1 killed thousands of elephant seals, only about a third of the seals normally expected here ...

The work of 12 early-career faculty members will get a boost as this year’s class of Hellman Fellows. They will receive ...