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Florida’s rental markets latest to suffer ill effects in housing crunch

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The spread of “For Rent” signs is the latest bad news as Florida’s real estate market declines in all forms of rentals, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Business, Florida on Monday, July 7, 2008.

New study points to agriculture in frog sexual abnormalities

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — A farm irrigation canal would seem a healthier place for toads than a ditch by a supermarket parking lot.

Filed under Research, Environment, Agriculture on Thursday, July 3, 2008.

Geologists push back date basins formed, supporting frozen Earth theory

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Even in geology, it’s not often a date gets revised by 500 million years.

Filed under Research, Sciences on Thursday, July 3, 2008.

UF study: Religious devotion linked to educational outcomes

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Adolescents who consider themselves “very religious” are generally more likely to finish college than their less devout counterparts, according to a University of Florida study.

Filed under Research, Education, Religion, Race, Black, Hispanic on Wednesday, July 2, 2008.

New standards needed for elderly, disabled to remain in homes

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “Build it and they will stay” would be wise policy with today’s growing number of elderly and disabled people who want to remain in their own homes, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Health, Business, Aging on Monday, June 30, 2008.

Major evolutionary study rewrites bird ‘tree of life’

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – The flamingo looks like it should be closely related to the stork or crane, but its closest relative may actually be the diminutive, modest grebe.

Filed under Research, Natural History, Environment, Sciences on Thursday, June 26, 2008.

Computer engineers: Virtual patients also experience racial bias

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For black people, it doesn’t matter whether their color shows up in pigments or pixels. Doctors may be less likely to heed their complaints either way.

Filed under Research, Health, Engineering, Florida, Race on Thursday, June 26, 2008.

With $50 million, Florida universities to focus on renewable energy

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With the cost of gas and electricity rising seemingly by the day, Florida’s universities will work together on research aimed at boosting a largely untapped resource: renewable energy.

Filed under Research, Business, Engineering, Environment, Florida on Thursday, June 26, 2008.

Florida consumer confidence index falls to lowest rate in its history

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Higher gas and food prices, continued declines in housing prices and last month’s large increase in unemployment caused Florida’s consumer confidence to plummet six points in June to 57, its all-time low record in the index’s 25-year history, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Research, Business, Florida on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.

Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain

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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Devices known as brain-machine interfaces could someday be used routinely to help paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with just their thoughts. Now, University of Florida researchers have taken the concept a step further, devising a way for computerized devices not only to translate brain signals into movement but also to […]

Filed under Research, Health, Engineering on Tuesday, June 24, 2008.