Walking across the new DNA-inspired bridge over 13th Street on the southern edge of the UF campus, Patrick Concannon looks down and sees remnants of old railroad tracks embedded in the...
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Fireflies taste bad; birds and mice know this, and on a textbook level biologists do, too. That tantalizing, glowing taillight might as well be flashing, “don’t eat me.” But Marc...
Amy Adams knew a state-mandated algebra exam that debuted in 2012 was going to be a challenge for her ninth-grade students, but when 60 percent of them failed she was...
The Great White Shark is not endangered in the Eastern North Pacific, and, in fact, is doing well enough that its numbers likely are growing, according to an international research...
Research cameras trained on the nests of Florida reptiles have caught giant, invasive lizards in the act of pilfering eggs – making them a potential threat to native turtles, alligators...
A University of Florida researcher became the first scientist to achieve genome-scale sequencing and analysis of fragile marine creatures at sea aboard a ship and in real time. The genomic...
Comb jellies – a seemingly simple form of marine life — took a radically different path to neural complexity than the rest of the animal kingdom, a finding that could...
In patients with multiple sclerosis, the body turns on itself, launching an immune system attack that destroys the coating around nerve fibers in the central nervous system, leaving them exposed...
To look at the humble loblolly pine – grown in neat rows on large farms throughout the southeastern U.S. and milled for things like building lumber and paper – you...
A dollop of peanut butter and a ruler can be used to confirm a diagnosis of early stage Alzheimer’s disease, University of Florida Health researchers have found. Jennifer Stamps, a...
Imagine trying to recreate the eruption of Mount St. Helens or the collapse of the World Trade Center. “Sometimes, experiments are not an option,” says UF mechanical and aerospace engineering...
Larry Page would like to get back to his fishes, the catfish and loaches he studies as a University of Florida ichthyologist, but first he and his colleagues have some...