Science Articles
![Headgear significantly reduces girls’ lacrosse concussions, landmark UF Health study finds](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/10/GettyImages-172900246_0.jpg)
Female high school lacrosse players are significantly less likely to sustain concussions and other injuries if they wear headgear, a landmark study led by University of Florida Health researchers has found.
![A Conversation Between a Vaccine-Hesitant Man and a Doctor](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/10/Mitchell-Hall_crop.jpg)
A vaccine-hesitant man and a UF Health doctor met one night at Spurrier's Gridiron Grille by chance. The two got to talking about the vaccine. After three hours of respectful conversation, a decision was made. Hear their story.
![This microbe-crocheting engineer makes the invisible adorable](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/10/Porras-square.png)
On biomedical engineer Ana Maria Porras’ Instagram, microbes that are typically invisible — and often unloved — are reimagined as cuddly, cute and crocheted.
![Why do some galaxies die? These scientists are a step closer to understanding why](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/09/UF-News_Stars.jpg)
Why do some galaxies just fizzle while others of similar age and magnitude continue birthing stars? That’s a puzzle a University of Florida researcher is working with a multi-university team to try to solve.
![UF/IFAS, FAMU win $1.4 million grant to teach AI to more diverse students](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/09/AI_NSF_Diversity_FAMU_Bryan-Kolaczkowski.jpeg)
The UF Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences and FAMU — a historically Black university and UF’s land-grant partner — will collaborate to recruit and retain traditionally underrepresented students in AI-related education and research.
![All-Seeing Algorithms: Building ethics into artificial intelligence systems](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/09/Ethics_openart.jpg)
Artificial intelligence and computer science researchers say getting machines to do the right thing has turned out to be relatively easy. But getting machines to do the right thing — the ethical thing — now that’s a different problem.
![UF cattle scientists use AI to improve quality and quantity of meat, dairy](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/08/Cattle-Genetics_crop.jpg)
Now, two University of Florida scientists will use artificial intelligence to analyze millions of bits of genetic data to try to keep cattle cooler and thus, more productive.
![Birds’ eye size reflects habitat and diet, may predict sensitivity to environmental change](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/08/UF-News_birdeye.jpg)
A new study shows the eye size of birds can reveal broad patterns of their biology and behavior, including where they live, what they eat and how they hunt, providing a potential roadmap for future conservation efforts.
![Dietitians are credible, with or without a white coat, study shows](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/08/UF-News_dietitians_.jpg)
New research from the University of Florida Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences shows that patients and clients see no difference in competence when their dietitian wears a white coat.
![Weird, noodle-shaped amphibians known as caecilians found in South Florida canal](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/07/UF-News_Caecilian.jpg)
Caecilians have arrived in Miami. Florida Fish and Wildlife biologists captured one of the obscure legless amphibians in the Tamiami Canal, the first example of an introduced caecilian in the U.S.
![Back to the Future: Citrus breeders look to ancient varieties for modern-day answers](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/07/UF-News_citrus-greening-research.jpg)
In the ongoing race to find a solution to the devastating citrus greening disease, University of Florida scientists may find the path to the future by looking to the past.
![UF/IFAS awarded 1st Ph.D. plant breeding program in Florida, one of few in USA](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/07/UF_plant-breeding.jpg)
Working in labs and fields across Florida, a new generation of students will start earning a Ph.D. in plant breeding from the University of Florida – the first program of its kind in Florida and one of a few in the nation.
![UF plant experiment flies on Virgin Galactic spaceship](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/07/Virgin-Galactic-Story-AS.jpg)
The UF project, funded by NASA’s Flight Opportunities Program, was the only science experiment on the mission, meant to study the impact the transition to and from zero gravity has on gene expression in cells, and, more broadly, to develop protocols for “human-tended” suborbital flights.
![UF steel bridge and concrete canoe make history: Only civil program to win national championships twice](/media/newsufledu/images/2021/07/UF-News_essie-competition_.jpg)
The University of Florida’s Eckhoff Steel Bridge team and Concrete Canoe design team have won their respective national competitions. This is the second time in UF’s history that this has happened, the first time was in 2015. No other civil program has accomplished this feat.