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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.

Moroze

Ocean of Opportunity

Scientists turn to the sea for breakthroughs in brain research

Feature image for "One Small Sprout" feature from Spring 2022 issue of Explore magazine.

One Small Sprout

A safe seems an unlikely place for a box of soil. Unless it’s the rarest, most valuablesoil on Earth. So...

Larry Page

Out of the Darkness

iDigBio is revealing new research opportunities in long-hidden museum collections

monkey skull

Paleontologists find first fossil monkey in North America

Florida Museum scientists find first fossil evidence for the existence of monkeys in North America

pit bull playing with Julie Levy, UF Vet Med researcher

Pit Bull? DNA studies reveal shelter workers mislabel dogs

DNA results show shelter workers are often mislabel a dog as a pit bull, with potentially devastating consequences for the dogs

Kevin Folta

Plant Whisperer

Horticultural scientist Kevin Folta is decoding plants’ responses to light across the spectrum

Brent Sumerlin says UF chemists like George Butler and Ken Wagener established a foundation for the study of polymer chemistry, a science that plays a huge role in biomedicine and energy.

Polymer People

UF builds on a strong foundation in polymer chemistry

cgi of people walking on moon

Process Converts Human Waste Into Rocket Fuel

UF researchers have figured out how to turn human waste into rocket fuel

Clifford Will

Proving Einstein wrong by proving him right

Clifford Will, a distinguished professor in the physics department at the University of Florida, received the 2019 Albert Einstein Medal.

Ellen Martin

Reliance on Science

Florida Climate Institute co-directors discuss the importance of science

Portrait of UF Physics Professor Pierre Sikivie

Sakurai for Sikivie

A University of Florida physics professor is the recipient of the 2020 J.J. Sakurai Prize for Theoretical Physics from the American Physical Society.

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