June 1996 Archive

UF Data Base To Give Monumental Help Around The World

GAINESVILLE — Monuments around the world that have been damaged by war, neglect and pollution are the focus of restoration and preservation efforts through a data base developed at the University of Florida.

Filed under Research, Architecture, Arts on Monday, June 10, 1996.

Environmental Chemicals Can Combine To Create Potential Hazzard

NEW ORLEANS — The combination of two environmental chemicals commonly found in insecticides and pesticides produces a response 1,000 times more powerful than each individual chemical, possibly causing harmful effects to the endocrine system, according to scientists at the Tulane-Xavier Center for Bioenvironmental Research (CBR) in New Orleans.

Filed under Research, Environment, Sciences on Thursday, June 6, 1996.

UF Scientist’s Discovery Challenges Assumptions About Killer Bird

GAINESVILLE — Scientists are searching for more fossils after a University of Florida paleontologist discovered a wing bone that revealed a 2-million-year-old killer bird so tough that it survived the collision of two continents.

Filed under Research, Natural History, Florida, Sciences on Wednesday, June 5, 1996.