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Feature image of Perseverence Rover landing on Mars' surface. Artist rendering by NASA/JPL.

Missions To Mars

Williams, a University of Florida geology professor, recently joined her second Mars mission: After serving on the Curiosity rover team since 2009, she’s now a participating scientist on the Perseverance rover, which touched down on the red planet on Feb. 18.

Innovation is in his DNA

Thomas Burris boarded his flight, found his seat and opened a book on nuclear receptors, the class of proteins he...
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.

Field Tested

The drone wouldn’t fly. The wheelchair-accessible van spun its tires, digging into the dusty gravel. And the men with shotguns...
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Surface Science

UF engineers apply the little-known science of tribology to sticky problems
Larry Page

Out of the Darkness

iDigBio is revealing new research opportunities in long-hidden museum collections
Katherine Bermudez conducts research in lab wearing PPE.

Sustaining Science

Images of the pandemic pause became familiar so quickly: Zoom cameos by cats tiptoeing across keyboards, parents stabbing mute buttons...