Japan used seawater to cool nuclear fuel at the stricken Fukushima-Daiichi nuclear plant after the tsunami in March 2011 -- and that was probably the best action to take at the time, says Professor Alexandra Navrotsky of the University of California, Davis. But Navrotsky and others have since…

Unexplained increases in a company’s auditor fees may foreshadow a future drop in stock prices, according to a new University of California, Davis, study. “A rise in audit fees acts to deliver a precursory message about trouble within the company,” said one of the study’s…

Savvy investors who follow short sellers to predict bearish news about a company’s stock -- and sell their stocks in that company to avoid losses -- should keep an eye on the company’s bonds as well, a new UC Davis study suggests. “Bond investors could avert significant losses…

The University of California, Davis, is saying "bem vindo," -- Portuguese for welcome -- to its newest students from Brazil. The university this month has enrolled the first 10 of up to 100 Brazilian students who could come to campus each year through agreements with two of the South…

A faint “satellite galaxy” 10 billion light years from Earth is the lowest-mass object ever detected at such a distance, says University of California, Davis, physics professor Chris Fassnacht, who aided in the satellite’s discovery. The find, described in a paper published…

Small-farm operators in Africa and parts of Asia are intended to reap the benefits from two $1 million grants supporting seed-related research for indigenous African vegetables, awarded by the Horticulture Collaborative Research Support Program in UC Davis’ Department of Plant Sciences. The…