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.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 […]
UF offers nation’s first master’s degree in environmental and land use law
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — In a world grappling with critical shortages of water, increasing developmental pressures and the unknown but real threats of climate change, environmental and land use law policies and applications are changing almost as fast as the weather.
To prepare a new generation of environmental lawyers to meet these challenges, the University of Florida […]
University of Florida professor designs plasma-propelled flying saucer
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction.