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  • Higher fuel prices may mean less pollution

    DAVIS, Calif., May 12 (UPI) -- U.S. economists say high gasoline prices might lead motorists to drive more fuel-efficient vehicles, resulting in lower greenhouse-gas emissions.
  • Global warning can cause mass infections

    DAVIS, Calif., June 26 (UPI) -- A U.S.-led international team of scientists said it's determined extreme climatic weather events can produce a sharp increase in infectious diseases.
  • Walnut trees emit aspirin-like chemical to deal with stress

    ... last year in a walnut grove near Davis, Calif., to monitor plant emissions of certain volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These hydrocarbon compounds ...
  • Wildlife corridors must not be symmetrical

    DAVIS, Calif., Oct. 22 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say people trying to help nature by designing wildlife corridors need to think more naturally and avoid regular, symmetrical structures.
  • Bias found in rulings of tennis referees

    DAVIE, Calif., Nov. 5 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists say they have discovered tennis referees are more likely to make an error calling a ball "out" than "in" because of perceptual misperceptions.
  • Study: California fish face extinction

    DAVIS, Calif., Nov. 20 (UPI) -- Most of California's native salmon, steelhead and trout species face extinction this century without quick action to provide proper habitats, a study found.
  • Sea otter diets affect disease exposure

    DAVIS, Calif., Jan. 20 (UPI) -- The U.S. Geological Survey says central California sea otters risk higher exposure to disease-causing parasites due to the food they eat and where they feed.
  • Rot's unique wood degrading machinery to be harnessed for better biofuels production

    ... and Director of Integrative Biology, at Novozymes, Inc., of Davis, Calif. "Such comparisons will increase our understanding of the diverse mechanisms and chemistries involved in lignocellulose degradation. This type ...
  • New Southern California beetle killing oaks

    DAVIS, Calif. May 1, 2009--U.S. Forest Service scientists have completed a study on a beetle that was first ...
  • American Indians came from single group

    DAVIS, Calif., May 4 (UPI) -- U.S.-led researchers say they have determined the ancestors of American Indians migrated to the New World from one ancestral Asian population.
  • Scientists study oak-killing Calif. beetle

    DAVIS, Calif., May 5 (UPI) -- U.S. Forest Service scientists say they've completed a study of a beetle that has attacked 67 percent of the oak trees in an area 30 miles east of San Diego.
  • Earth's iron isotope distribution studied

    DAVIS, Calif., June 18 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have used a supercomputer to calculate the iron isotope distribution in Earth's mantle that occurred 4.5 billion years ago.
  • Protein neuroligin helps make synapses

    DAVIS, Calif., June 22 (UPI) -- U.S. scientists have determined a protein called neuroligin, implicated in some forms of autism, is critical to the construction of a working synapse.
  • Study finds plants can communicate

    DAVIS, Calif., June 24 (UPI) -- U.S. and Japanese scientists have discovered plants can communicate danger to their "clones" or genetically identical cuttings planted nearby.
  • Salamander faces persistent threat

    DAVIS, Calif., July 5 (UPI) -- California tiger salamanders face a threat from a hybrid relative as well as from over development and pollution, researchers said.

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