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Multimedia: Rude work behavior hurts job performance of observers as well as victims

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A destructive form of secondhand rudeness has been discovered by a University of Florida study, which concludes that employees who are not the intended targets of abusive workplace remarks still suffer from their effects.

Filed under Multimedia on Wednesday, July 29, 2009.

Multimedia: Cold weather may reduce Cuban tree frogs’ impact as they move north, UF researchers say

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Invasive Cuban tree frogs are spreading through Florida, but a new University of Florida study suggests their impact could weaken as they move farther north, because colder weather seems to reduce their average size.

Filed under Multimedia on Thursday, July 16, 2009.

Multimedia: Astronomers, royalty, rock stars to inaugurate world’s largest telescope

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Four hundred years after Galileo first turned his handmade telescope toward the heavens, the world’s largest, most technologically advanced telescope is set to make its formal debut.

Filed under Multimedia on Monday, July 13, 2009.

Multimedia: UF researchers turn up the heat on bedbugs with new low-tech treatment method

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Bedbug infestations are notoriously hard to eliminate, but University of Florida researchers have developed a low-cost, low-tech method to kill the bloodsucking insects in furniture and bedding, using heat.

Filed under Multimedia on Tuesday, July 7, 2009.