GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Arguments scheduled Wednesday before the U.S. Supreme Court in cases that challenge how Alaska and Connecticut post sex offender information on the Internet might eventually determine public access to similar information in most states, according to new findings compiled by University of Florida researchers.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Researchers report the first premature babies to receive an experimental artificial amniotic fluid patented by University of Florida scientists appear to tolerate the solution, which was given orally in hopes it will help the infants’ digestive system develop properly so they can eventually handle regular feedings.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — UF has received a $3 million gift aimed at making it an international leader in the study of biodiversity and the environment, a field that will play an increasingly important role in agriculture and other areas as Earth becomes more crowded and people continue to deplete its natural resources.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Perfectionism puts adolescent girls with unhealthy eating habits at risk for becoming anorexic and the body imperfections that go along with it as they grow older, a new University of Florida study finds.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Florida’s consumer confidence fell sharply in October, dampening hopes of an economic recovery and suggesting the state could sink into another recession, University of Florida economists report.
GAINESVILLE, Fla.–As tobacco companies campaign to promote smokeless tobacco as a safer alternative to cigarettes, many smokers who take up snuff in an effort to quit instead end up using both products, warns a University of Florida researcher. Furthermore, nonsmokers who use snuff are more likely than those who don’t to eventually begin smoking.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Women may worry more about their weight, but it’s men who are more likely to become hooked on exercise, a University of Florida study shows.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The hunt to find a gene that causes a disease typically costs hundreds of thousands of dollars and requires years of research - and it still may fail to turn up the sought-after culprit, driving the research back to square one.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The world speed record for protein folding apparently goes to an unusually tiny specimen that traces its origens to Gila monster spit.
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The identification of Caribbean monk seal bones at the Miami Circle archaeological site by University of Florida scientists provides one more piece of evidence that the somewhat mysterious spot may have been used for sacred purposes nearly 1,600 years ago.