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...
Albert Einstein, gravitational waves graphic art
UF physicists were leaders in the construction of LIGO and the detection of gravitational waves
Feature image of Perseverence Rover landing on Mars' surface. Artist rendering by NASA/JPL.
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.
Tapomoy Bhattacharjee monitors the printing of a jellyfish.
UF ushers in a new age of engineering with a novel technology for 3-D printing the softest objects
tribology
UF engineers apply the little-known science of tribology to sticky problems