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Physicists Expand Equation of State for Fermi-Hubbard Model

by Greg Watry
March 15, 2024

From the rear of a classroom, rows of students face a blackboard where a professor is drawing symbols.

Closing Equity Gaps in Physics Education

by Greg Watry
September 11, 2023

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Heavier Than Expected Particle Raises Questions About Standard Model

by Andy Fell
April 08, 2022

CERN hadron collider

UC Davis Leads $3.7M Multicampus Grant to Stem Shortage of Instrumental Physicists

by Becky Oskin
October 22, 2021

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Chemical Physics

College of Letters and Science

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Applied Physics

College of Letters and Science

Photo of shock lab that will be part of the new UC Davis Center for Matter at Atomic Pressures

Understanding Matter at Atom-Crushing Densities

by Melissa Blouin
August 10, 2020

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New Double-Contrast Technique Picks Up Small Tumors on MRI

by Andy Fell
May 25, 2020

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Taking the Temperature of Dark Matter

by Andy Fell
January 15, 2020

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Scientists Receive $6 Million to Support Particle Accelerator, Wildfire Research

by Lisa Howard
November 26, 2019

Distorted galaxies

New Measurement of Hubble Constant Adds to Cosmic Mystery

by Andy Fell
October 23, 2019

Cyclotron operator in control room.

Crocker Nuclear Laboratory to Produce Rare Medical Isotope

by Becky Oskin
September 09, 2019

Dean Emeritus Winston Ko Dies at 76

by Andy Fell
July 30, 2019

University

Large Hadron Collider at CERN

Explore Secrets of the Universe in Spectacular IMAX Movie

by Andy Fell
July 05, 2019

Dark matter in the universe

A New Candidate for Dark Matter and a Way to Detect It

by Andy Fell
June 10, 2019

Plant biologist and Sloan Fellow Patrick Shih

4 Receive Sloan Research Fellowships

by Andy Fell
February 19, 2019

Galaxy supercluster

Astronomers Find a Cosmic Titan in the Early Universe

by Andy Fell
October 17, 2018

Science & Technology

Boulby mine in England will house the Watchman neutrino detector.

Physicists Join WATCHMAN International Effort to Curb Nuclear Weapons

by Andy Fell
March 27, 2018

Science & Technology

Stephen Hawking at UC Davis in 2003

Campus Remembers Stephen Hawking

by Andy Fell
March 14, 2018

Science & Technology

Discovering colliding neutron stars

Colliding Neutron Stars Seen by Gravity Waves and Optical Telescopes

by Andy Fell
October 16, 2017

Science & Technology

Supernova 2017cbv, on the outskirts of the spiral galaxy NGC 5643. Data are from the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Supernova Pr

Astronomers Spy Supernova’s Giant Companion Star

by Becky Oskin
August 14, 2017

Science & Technology

Cluster used as lens to detect distant galaxy

Long Ago and Far Away, an Average Galaxy

by Andy Fell
April 10, 2017

Science & Technology

Distant galaxy imaged

Astronomers See Faintest, Furthest Galaxy

by Andy Fell
May 19, 2016

Science & Technology

Manetti Shrem Museum

9 Coming Attractions at UC Davis

by Julia Ann Easley
September 21, 2015

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The winds of Titan

by Andy Fell
December 08, 2014

Science & Technology

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