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Sliding on Waves of Atoms: Lab Is First to Observe Ripples and Friction on 2D Materials

November 5, 2020
Mechanical Engineering Professor Mehmet Baykara’s latest discovery in two-dimensional (2D) materials will have implications for future space missions, as well as nanotechnology on Earth. Since the Nobel prize-winning discovery of 2D materials in 2004, scientists have believed the...

DNA Tracks Mysterious Denisovans to Chinese Cave

November 4, 2020

UC Merced Mourns Passing of John Sykes

November 3, 2020

Infrared Cameras Can Spot a Fever, but May Not Slow Covid-19

November 3, 2020

Schools Adopt Face Recognition in the Name of Fighting Covid

November 3, 2020

New Precision Ag Project Would Help Farmers Measure Plant Moisture

November 2, 2020
One of the biggest challenges in managing crops, especially in large fields, is knowing how much water each section of a field needs. Determining that accurately is a cumbersome process that requires people to hand-pluck individual leaves from plants, put them in pressure chambers and apply air...

Why Dry Weather This Election Day May Boost Biden

November 1, 2020

New State COVID Coalition Aims to Represent At-Risk Groups

November 1, 2020

Extreme Fire Risk Subsides in Bay Area - For Now

October 28, 2020

Researchers Seek to Understand Messy Proteins that are Critical to Cellular Function

October 27, 2020
Biophysical chemistry Professor Shahar Sukenik and the graduate students in his lab are trying to make sense out of what might seem to some to be chaos. They aim to better understand how a series of floppy, malleable proteins function — or malfunction — inside cells. The work has...

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