Feature image for "One Small Sprout" feature from Spring 2022 issue of Explore magazine.
A safe seems an unlikely place for a box of soil. Unless it’s the rarest, most valuablesoil on Earth. So...
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Dive into Explore's archives from the fall of 2011 to the magazine's beginnings in the spring of 1996
Kevin Folta
Horticultural scientist Kevin Folta is decoding plants’ responses to light across the spectrum
UF has received more than $500 million in Gatorade royalties, helping to fund thousands of research projects. Often, faculty are...
Seen from a distance, four students examine striations in red volcanic rock on the edge of a crater strewn with boulders. They wear sun hats to protect from the glare and heat. One points at the rock patterns, which are crumbled and eroded.
The drone wouldn’t fly. The wheelchair-accessible van spun its tires, digging into the dusty gravel. And the men with shotguns...
tribology
UF engineers apply the little-known science of tribology to sticky problems