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High-Altitude Archaeology Uncovers Earliest Evidence of Potato Consumption

Every French fry, gnocchi, tater tot and order of hash browns humans have eaten in the past 5,000 years can be traced back to one place in the world — northwestern Bolivia and southern Peru.

Massive VR System Links Merced to the World

Visitors experience the WAVE, a 20-screen, 3-D visualization system.Imagine being able to explore the newly discovered hidden chambers in the Great Pyramid of Giza or microstructures within the human brain, to work on big-data pro

People in Eurasia are Genetic Hybrids with Evolutionary Advantages, Study Shows

It’s not just luck or practice that gets Sherpa mountaineers up the slopes of Mt. Everest each year.

Functioning so well at extreme elevations is in the Sherpa and Tibetan DNA — literally.

Grad Student’s Water-Mapping Work Leads to National Recognition

Grad student Lorenzo Booth is working on a water-footprinting project.UC Merced graduate student Lorenzo Booth’s research into more efficient use of water for agriculture has earned him accolades from the American Water Resources Association for not only producing informatio

The Real Horror of ‘Frankenstein:’ Human Extinction

Professor Justin Yeakel and a colleague at Dartmouth explored the ecological themes of  the novel 'Frankenstein.'If fictional scientist Victor Frankenstein had created a mate for his nameless Creature, humans would have gone ex

Winston Feted for Golden Anniversary of Landmark Discovery

Professor Roland Winston and some of his team at UC SolarFifty years ago this year, while a freshman faculty member in the University of Chicago Physics Department, Roland Winston published a paper introducing a new field