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21 min ago | Jalopnik

Will The Car Of The Future Look Like A Car Of The Future?

Will the car of the future look like something outlandish, something amazing, something futuristic? Or will the real car of the future look just like a regular car, only it will be clean, efficient, and amazingly advanced under the skin? I've been having this debate with myself since the summer of 2008.

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Related Topix: Davis, CA, Autos

Thu May 23, 2013

Noozhawk

With Renewed Vision, SBCC Graduate Robert Gutierrez Sees Bright Future

Under fluorescent lab lights, 30-year-old Robert Gutierrez was packing up papers and lab equipment, having just finished his last five-hour Organic Chemistry 2 lab.

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Related Topix: Chemistry, Science, UC Irvine, Brown University, Stem Cell Research, Science / Technology, Carpinteria, CA

Caravan Stockton Newspaper

El Concilio and UC Davis receive $1 million Covered California Grant

El Concilio-Council for the Spanish Speaking and the University of California Davis Center for Health Disparities will be recipients of a Covered California Grant for $1,000,000. The Covered California grants are being awarded after a highly competitive process to applicants to outreach and educate the community about the new federal Affordable ... (more)

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Related Topix: California, Davis, CA, San Joaquin County, CA

Washington Post

Boy Scouts vote to allow openly gay scouts, maintain ban on gay adult leaders

A Boy Scout wears an Eagle Scot neckerchief in Austin, Texas. The Boy Scouts ended its ban on openly gay youth on Thursday.

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Related Topix: Gay/Lesbian, Austin, TX, Roman Catholic Church, Religion, US News, Liberal Political News

National Geographic

What Makes Us Feel an Itch? Answer Surprises Scientists

Scientists experimenting in mice may have found the culprit: A molecule used by the heart is pulling double duty, sending a message to the spinal cord that ultimately produces that familiar tickle on our skin .

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Related Topix: Bethesda, MD

New Hampshire Public Radio -

Canned Peaches Are As Nutritious As Fresh. Really?

Canned peaches can pack as many, or in some cases, more nutrients than fresh ones, research suggests.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nutrition, Agriculture, Science, Vitamin C, Supplement, Davis, CA, Life, Fruits, Food

CBS Local

Nev. Names Football Field After Ex-Coach Ault

Nevada president Marc Johnson announced on Wednesday the home of the Wolf Pack will now be called Chris Ault Field at Mackay Stadium.

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Related Topix: Nevada Government, Nevada

LiveScience

Gulf Killifish Show Defects from Crude Oil Exposure

New research shows that a signal species of fish in the Gulf Coast was harmed by exposure to crude oil toxins nearly a year after the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil rig disaster occurred.

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Related Topix: Louisiana State University, Clemson University, Davis, CA, Oil Spill

CBS Local

Pesticides May Be To Blame For Bee Die-Off In California, Nation

Honeybees have been dying at an alarming rate for years, but a new government survey shows nearly a third of the nation's honeybees died over the winter.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Vegetables, Home Gardening, Home, Environmental Law, Law, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Environment, Science

Wed May 22, 2013

Mercury-Register

Letter: Fraternity punishment doesn't fit crime

Humans have been brewing beer for 15,000 years. The only reason Jesus didn't turn water into wine is because he couldn't find any Cascade hops and used all the yeast to make bread and batter fish.

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Related Topix: Beer, Drink, Hume, CA, Life, Homebrewing, Hobbies, Baked Goods, Food, Bread, Opinion

The Huffington Post

California Hospital Strike: Thousands Picket At UC Davis Medical Center, Other Universities

As non-emergency surgeries were postponed and fill-in medical technicians were brought in from out of state, thousands of employees walked off the job Tuesday at the UC Davis Medical Center and four other University of California hospitals.

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Related Topix: California, Calaveras County, CA

Business Journal

UC Davis researchers get $3M grant to study Fragile X

UC Davis researchers have received a $3 million grant to conduct the first long-range study of mental and psychological decline that accompanies an age-related neurological disorder associated with Fragile X Syndrome.

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Related Topix: Davis, CA

Fire Rescue Magazine

REACH Air Medical Services Takes Delivery on New Helicopter

In an ongoing program to modernize and upgrade its fleet of emergency air medical helicopters, REACH Air Medical Services has taken delivery of a new Eurocopter EC135 helicopter.

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Related Topix: Concord, CA, UC San Francisco, US News, Federal Aviation Administration

Examiner.com

Music from Lara Downes' 'Exiles' Cafe' features other places and other times

The music programmed on Exiles' Cafe instantly conjures up images of a house pianist performing for poets, writers, musicians and other artists gathered together at a popular expatriate club.

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Related Topix: Davis, CA

Newswise

Study Provides Better Understanding of Water's Freezing Behavior at Nanoscale

The results of a new study led by George Washington University Professor Tianshu Li provide direct computational evidence that nucleation of ice in small droplets is strongly size-dependent, an important conclusion in understanding water's behavior at the nanoscale.

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Related Topix: George Washington University, Davis, CA, Physics, Science

Tue May 21, 2013

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

UC Davis Medical Center works begin two-day strike

Surgical technician Katie Caton, right, cheers on her fellow workers in front of the hospital during a labor strike on Tuesday, May 21, 20013.The American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees planned the walkout of workers at the UC Davis Health System and University of California hospitals in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego ... (more)

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Related Topix: California

The Press-Enterprise

SCHOOLS: Smokers less likely to graduate

High school students who smoke cigarettes are less likely to graduate on time, more likely to drop out and more likely to have poor grades, says a new study from UC Davis and reported EdSource, Highlighting Strategies for Student Success.

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Related Topix: Smoking, Medicine, Health, Education Etc., Davis, CA

R & D

Iron-platinum alloys show promise for next-generation hard drives

Meeting the demand for more data storage in smaller volumes means using materials made up of ever-smaller magnets, or nanomagnets.

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Related Topix: Davis, CA

NBC Los Angeles

UC Medical Workers Begin Two-Day Walkout

Medical workers across California plan to strike for the next two days in an effort to push forward negotiations for a new contract.

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Related Topix: UC Irvine, UC San Diego, UC San Francisco

Sacramento Bee Newspaper

UC asks court to stem scope of hospital-worker strike

University of California officials have gone to court to stem the extent of a two-day strike set to begin Tuesday for thousands of patient-care technicians at UC Davis Medical Center and four other large University of California hospitals.

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Related Topix: Medicine, Nursing, UC San Francisco, UC Irvine