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This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of November 13th.

Experts say space science has a lot of potential, but it hasn’t had much computer power behind it. So, get ready for the first super-computer in space. Working with NASA and Honeywell, University of Florida engineers are developing a super-computer to work in space. Currently, scientific satellites download raw data back to [...]

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of November 6th.

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of October 30th.

If you’re dating someone who thinks a lot of him or herself, don’t plan on a long or very satisfying relationship. A new University of Florida study shows the greater a narcissist’s interest in sex, the less committed they tend to be in a romantic relationship. UF psychologist Ilan Shrira says narcissists view [...]

Coffee lovers who switch to decaf for health reasons assume the coffee is actually decaffeinated, but University of Florida researchers tested 22 decaffeinated coffee beverages and every serving but one contained some caffeine. You won’t find as much caffeine as in regular coffee, but UF expert Bruce Goldberger says if you need to avoid caffeine [...]

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of October 23rd.

The hormone leptin regulates appetite to keep body weight in check, but University of Florida research shows leptin may also combat adult-onset diabetes.
Researchers fed lab animals the same kind of high calorie diet that can trigger the production of more insulin and boost the risk of diabetes in humans. Using leptin gene therapy, UF [...]

This is University Update Weekly, your online source for University of Florida news and events for the week of October 16th.

Coffee lovers who switch to decaf for health reasons often assume that the coffee is really decaffeinated, but new UF research shows that almost all brewed cups of decaf actually contain caffeine.