UF Using New Technology To Speed Contamination Cleanup
GAINESVILLE — University of Florida researchers are using a new technology that could reduce the cleanup time of some stubborn hazardous waste sites from years to days.
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UF Psychologists Ready To Help Floridians When Disaster Strikes
GAINESVILLE—El Niño will long be remembered for this year’s onslaught of natural disasters across the nation. Wildfires blazed out of control, deadly tornadoes fell from the sky, flood waters rolled over plains and droughts dried farmlands. All this, and the height of hurricane season looms.
UF Research Shows Zinc Triggers Body’s Defenses
GAINESVILLE — Summer cold sufferers take heart: A new University of Florida study offers new evidence that zinc — the latest rage in cold remedies — may provide immediate protection against disease.
UF Researchers Work With Navy To Squeeze Out The Squeak From Helium-Altered Voices
GAINESVILLE, Fla.—Some people find inhaling helium fun at a party, where the squeaky, high-pitched voices it creates can be comical. But for deep-water divers, who breathe a helium-oxygen mix, such speech distortions can prove dangerous and costly.
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UF Researcher: Mothers Who Use Cocaine In Pregnancy Still Love Babies
GAINESVILLE — Cocaine abuse does not necessarily affect motherly love, according to a University of Florida study that finds mothers who use the drug during pregnancy care for their babies just as much as moms who abstained.
UF Researchers Develop Filter Coating That Traps Bacteria And Viruses
GAINESVILLE — When 26 children became ill after swimming in a kiddie pool at an Atlanta water park earlier this summer, health investigators said it was because low chlorine levels failed to kill harmful bacteria in the water.