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Space is preparing to go a little nuts. NASA satellite images could soon give information to nut growers about their orchard's health, allowing them to stay ahead of plant stress issues, pests and diseases that could affect crop yield and quality.

California employees, including veterinarians employed by the state, already are being forced to take three days of unpaid leave each month, and the University of California-Davis is trying to figure out how to absorb a $2.1 million state funding cut.

Attracting bees, wild birds, insects and other pollinators to the garden seems to be a priority for gardeners these days, but it can be complicated.

California's tight budget situation has delayed plans by at least one year to open the Historic Fish Hatchery in Tahoe City.

The results tell recovering substance abusers, their families and drug-treatment specialists that it can take an extended period of time for the brain functions critical to recovery to improve.

As a chubby, smiling baby boy, Marlon Barton delighted everyone around him. Now that he is a strapping young man who flaps his hands and makes odd noises, no one knows quite what to do with him.

When Alysa Brennan of Hermosa Beach, Calif., discovered one of her Great Danes had cancer, she was faced with a difficult decision, but she felt fortunate that her veterinarian, Dr.

Secrets of daily life among the great pyramids of Giza uncovered In a study lasting two decades, archaeologists have uncovered a number of secrets of daily life among the great pyramids of Giza in Egypt.

In a study published online by the Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment, UC Davis researchers report that it takes at least a year for former methamphetamine users to regain impulse control.

A group of plant proteins that "shut the door" on bacteria that would otherwise infect the plant's leaves has been identified for the first time by a team of researchers in Denmark, at the University of California, Davis, and at UC Berkeley.

Not many computer science professors are activists on immigration policy. But Norm Matloff of the University of California, Davis wears both hats.

Today is Sunday, June 28, the 179th day of 2009. There are 186 days left in the year.

The Norton Simon Museum has long been known as a prestigious institution where art of the ages is perfectly placed in quiet, crisp rooms.

An entomology professor at the University of California, Davis who discovered a novel therapeutic target for treating inflammation, has received a three-year $750,000 grant from the American Asthma Foundation to investigate whether his discovery will work on asthma, a chronic disease affecting 300 million people worldwide, including 23 million ...

Whether the state budget mess ends with more cuts or more taxes, the economy won't know the difference -- at least in the short run, economists say.

As the numbers of swine flu cases increase nationally, scientists say underlying medical conditions such as heart or lung problems, asthma and obesity have been linked to serious infections.

Fragile X syndrome is the most common form of inherited intellectual impairment.

U.S. and Japanese scientists have discovered plants can communicate danger to their "clones" or genetically identical cuttings planted nearby.

A 24-year old woman has become Sacramento County's first fatality resulting from the swine flu outbreak.

Over one-fifth of U.S. medical schools improved their conflict-of-interest rules in the past year, yet dozens of others lag behind according to the 2009 American Medical Student Association PharmFree Scorecard, released today.