Every process that happens in our bodies leaves a trail of small molecules called metabolites. A cancer cell starts dividing uncontrollably, it leaves a trail. An athlete injects steroids to...
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If the Fountain of Youth exists, Kathleen Deagan likely will find it. The University of Florida archaeologist has made discoveries throughout the Spanish Colonial World: La Navidad, the site of...
Bruce MacFadden hacks his way through the gray clay of Panama with a prospector’s hammer, carving out a perfect protrusion to sample its magnetic orientation. He seems oblivious to the...
The story is apocryphal, passed through generations: When I was your age, I walked five miles to school (and 10 miles back, if the storyteller really wants to pull your...
In the basement of the emergency medicine corridor of UF Health Jacksonville, Robert Wears, a professor in the Department of Emergency Medicine, scans engineering books and medical journals, carefully piecing...
Like most people in need of major surgery, Rodney Haning, a retired telecommunications project manager and avid golfer, has a few questions for his doctors. He wonders, for example, exactly how...
Kevin Folta is the Dr. Dolittle of the plant kingdom. Folta is interpreting a new language, spoken between the sun and the Earth’s plants — where blue means one thing,...
Think of your memories: a first kiss, a broken bone, a heart-wrenching good-bye. They all changed your DNA. Neuroscientists have long sought clues to memory — what we remember, what...
It’s just math: The longer a mosquito lives, the better its odds of transmitting disease to humans or animals. But as it turns out, factors such as the mosquito’s own...
When a magnitude-7.0 earthquake hit Haiti in 2010, the world wanted to help. People gave blood. Communities organized bake sales. International and nongovernmental organizations visited the area to dig wells...
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...
A University of Florida scientist has moved one step closer to his goal of eliminating 99.9 percent of peanut allergens by removing 80 percent of them in whole peanuts. Scientists...