How do cities plan for the future? UC Davis Professor Catherine Brinkley discusses urban planning, environmental justice and community development at the June Davis Science Café.

A new study in psychology used advanced statistical modeling to chart loneliness and social isolation as older adults move through stages of cognitive impairment and mortality. The results suggest that loneliness plays a much stronger role in cognitive impairment and shorter life spans than social isolation on its own.

Researchers at UC Davis are expanding into positive psychology to understand how social connection and the experience of joy can help people across LGBTQ+ communities to thrive.

On Presidents Day weekend, children at the SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity, or MOSAC, in Sacramento played Wreathies, a game created by graduate and undergraduate students in the Department of Communication’s UC Davis Media Lab. The game is part of a scientific study to test whether kids between 8 and 12 years old prefer to have choices in their learning.

Attraction, attachment, being in love: These topics have all been fodder for magazine articles in publications as varied as Nature, The Knot and Cosmopolitan. In fact, multiple UC Davis researchers have been quoted in hundreds of stories to talk about the science of love. Turns out, most people — and many animal species — are geared toward pairing up. And life — and often, living well and healthy — depends on these bonds. At UC Davis multiple labs are investigating these unions.