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Study: Abandoning net neutrality discourages improvements in service

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Charging online content providers such as Yahoo! and Google for preferential access to the customers of Internet service providers might not be in the best interest of the millions of Americans, despite claims to the contrary, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Business, Research, Sciences, Technology on Wednesday, March 7, 2007.

Human pubic lice acquired from gorillas gives evolutionary clues

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Humans acquired pubic lice from gorillas several million years ago, but this seemingly seedy connection does not mean that monkey business went on with the great apes, a new University of Florida study finds.

Filed under Natural History, Research, Sciences on Wednesday, March 7, 2007.

UF researchers design folate-packed tomato

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Leafy greens and beans now aren’t the only foods that pack a punch of folate, the vitamin essential for a healthy start to pregnancy. Researchers at the University of Florida’s Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences have developed a tomato with a full day’s worth of the nutrient in a single serving.

Filed under Agriculture, Health, Research, Sciences on Tuesday, March 6, 2007.

UF study first to document evidence of ‘mafia’ behavior in cowbirds

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — “The Sopranos” have some competition — brown-headed cowbirds.

Filed under Natural History, Research, Sciences on Monday, March 5, 2007.