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Galaxy Clusters Have a Mysterious Motion
(PhysOrg.com) -- The stars are in motion, and on a much larger scale than can be explained with current theories, according to astronomers at NASA, the University of Hawaii and UC Davis. The finding could improve our understanding ...
Sep 24, 2008 |
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Strange Antihyperparticle Created
(PhysOrg.com) -- Physicists, including nine from UC Davis, working at the U.S. Department of Energy's Brookhaven National Laboratory recently created some strange matter not seen since just after the Big Bang -- an "antihypertriton" ...
Mar 30, 2010 |
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Salt Shakeup: No Need to Regulate What Our Bodies Already Control
(PhysOrg.com) -- Yesterday the Institute of Medicine issued an official report claiming that Americans consume too much salt and urging that new government standards be established for "acceptable sodium content" in foods ...
Apr 22, 2010 |
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Scientists' Drill Hits Magma: Only Third Time on Record
(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists drilling a borehole deep into Iceland’s rocky crust to explore new methods of using geothermal energy hit a major roadblock on Thursday: Their drill ran into molten rock at a depth ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 29, 2009 |
4.7 / 5 (24) |
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Positive psychological changes from meditation training linked to cellular health
(PhysOrg.com) -- Positive psychological changes that occur during meditation training are associated with greater telomerase activity, according to researchers at the University of California, Davis, and the University of ...
Medicine & Health / Psychology & Psychiatry
Nov 03, 2010 |
4.9 / 5 (15) |
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Researcher's waste-to-energy technology moves from the lab to the marketplace
(Phys.org) -- Technology invented by a University of California, Davis, researcher that converts solid waste into renewable energy is debuting today as the first commercially available, high-solid anaerobic ...
Technology / Energy & Green Tech
Apr 20, 2012 |
4.9 / 5 (13) |
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New Evidence Shakes up Perceptions of Salt
(PhysOrg.com) -- As the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans are currently under development and regulations surrounding sodium consumption are being considered, an analysis of evidence to be released online ...
Oct 15, 2009 |
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Nano-sandwich Triggers Novel Electron Behavior
(PhysOrg.com) -- A material just six atoms thick in which electrons appear to be guided by conflicting laws of physics depending on their direction of travel has been discovered by a team of physicists at the University of ...
May 04, 2009 |
3.9 / 5 (14) |
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Cobalt catalysts for simple water splitting
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from UC Davis and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology are studying how a simple cobalt catalyst can split water molecules. Such inexpensive catalysts could one day be used to convert sunlight ...
May 07, 2010 |
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Fox spit helped Forest Service confirm rare find
(PhysOrg.com) -- Three weeks ago, when U.S. Forest Service biologists thought they had found a supposedly extinct fox in the mountains of central California, they turned to UC Davis for confirmation.
Sep 03, 2010 |
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Study shows plants moved downhill, not up, in warming world
(PhysOrg.com) -- In a paper published today in the journal Science, a University of California, Davis, researcher and his co-authors challenge a widely held assumption that plants will move uphill in respon ...
Jan 20, 2011 |
4.5 / 5 (10) |
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Climate Change Alters Base of Tahoe Food Web
(PhysOrg.com) -- UC Davis researchers at Lake Tahoe this week published the first evidence that climate change alters the makeup of tiny plant communities called algae, which are the very foundation of the ...
Sep 29, 2008 |
3.3 / 5 (13) |
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Astronomers find a dark matter galaxy far, far away
(PhysOrg.com) -- A faint “satellite galaxy” 10 billion light years from Earth is the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance, says University of California, Davis, physics professor Chris ...
Jan 18, 2012 |
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Warm-blooded sea reptiles of the Jurassic
(PhysOrg.com) -- New evidence shows that reptiles roaming the oceans at the time of the dinosaurs could maintain a constant body temperature well above that of the surrounding water.
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Jun 10, 2010 |
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UC Davis Historian Catalogs U.S. Secrets, Lies and Conspiracies
(PhysOrg.com) -- The government's own secrets, lies and conspiracies have fueled a 45-year-long decline in America's trust in its leaders, a University of California, Davis, history professor argues in a new book.
Mar 16, 2009 |
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