Optical illusions and tennis
Disputed line calls are as much a part of the Wimbledon tennis tournament as rain and overpriced strawberries. Tuesday’s New York Times has a long article on research by David Whitney and his lab at...
View ArticleBike controls and the pedal desk
Professors Mont Hubbard and Ron Hess in Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering are running a project to study bicycle-human control systems. It turns out, says Hess, that this is a harder problem to...
View ArticleExpert on head injuries in youth football to speak on campus
Stefan Duma, a national expert on concussion, will talk about his work on head impacts in youth football at 4 p.m. Thursday, March 8, in room 1005 of the Genome and Biomedical Sciences Facility on the...
View ArticleUpcoming: Friday talks on science of elite sports
If you’re interested in a scientific approach to athletic performance or coaching, an upcoming series of visiting lectures at UC Davis is for you. Beginning on April 4, the first three speakers are:...
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UC Davis/Chile research targets muscle disease
Keith Baar’s laboratory in the Department of Neurobiology, Physiology and Behavior is beginning a collaboration on inherited muscle disease with at team at the University of Finis Terrae in Santiago,...
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Calculating just how fast Usain Bolt runs
With gold medals in three sprinting events at three Olympic Games, Usain Bolt has written himself into the record books as arguably the fastest human of all time. But just how fast is the Jamaican...
View ArticleGelatin supplements, good for your joints?
A new study from Keith Baar’s Functional Molecular Biology Laboratory at the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences and the Australian Institute of Sport suggests that consuming a gelatin supplement,...
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Biology Researchers Make Cell Metabolism “Best of 2017”
Two different teams of researchers from the College of Biological Sciences are represented in the “Best of 2017” issue of the prominent journal Cell Metabolism. Their papers, on insulin-producing beta...
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Wilsaan Joiner: Understanding the Neuroscience of Movement, Vision and...
By Greg Watry “What are the unmined frontiers of human knowledge?” As an adolescent, Wilsaan Joiner was asked this question by his father, but in classic parental fashion, his dad already had a couple...
View ArticleMRI and Computer Modeling Reveals How Wrist Bones Move
By Brady Oppenheim We use our wrists constantly, but how do they work? In a just-published Journal of Biomechanics article, the researchers proved a longtime assumption about individuals’ right and...
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