A new study poses fascinating questions about the role of consciousness in pleasurable touch, as well as age-related changes in the brain’s processing of touch.

The concept of the multiverse, multiple versions of the same world existing side by side, is widespread in movies and television. In the real world, theoretical physicists are still grappling with the mathematics of multiple worlds. A new paper by physicists at UC Davis takes a fresh look at the quantum math of multiple worlds, implying that there may be more possibilities than we imagine.

Around 170,000 years ago, the Yellowstone Caldera — a supervolcano — produced a series of small eruptions in frequent pulses lasting roughly 100,000 years. Remnants from those eruptions can be found on the Earth’s surface today as volcanic rock. And those rocks contain critical clues about the interior of the supervolcano.

In his new book “One from the Many: The Global Economy Since 1850,” Professor of Economics Christopher Meissner details the economic history of the global economy, grounding the idea of globalization in the technologies that have made it possible.

Magali Billen, a professor in the Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, seeks to unravel the forces that drive plate tectonics from hundreds of kilometers beneath the Earth’s surface.

New research finds that for the past 150 years, immigrants in the United States have had lower incarceration rates than the U.S.-born, and since the 1960s that gap has significantly grown.

In a study appearing in Review of Scientific Instruments, UC Davis researchers report a refined NMR method for investigating condensed matter materials, improving the sensitivity of the method by roughly 1,000 times.

A recently installed prototype detector at CERN was forged by Aggie hands, fabricated and installed by UC Davis undergraduate and graduate students in Matthew Citron’s research group.

Manvir Singh, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology, recently published an essay in The New Yorker titled "Don't Believe What They're Telling You About Misinformation."

For the last six years, graduate student Meredith Carlson has studied the ongoing development of stone tool use in white-faced capuchins on the islands of Coiba and Jicarón, both located within Panama's Coiba National Park.