Brain & Behavior
Panthers Show Resilience Against Emerging Brain Disease Threat
New research from the University of Central Florida brings welcome news for Florida's endangered panthers.
Nov 21, 2024
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Space
Researchers Help Find Evidence of Geothermal Activity within Icy Dwarf Planets
University of Central Florida Florida Space Institute researchers are part of a team of scientists who have found evidence of geothermal activity within icy dwarf planets in our solar system.
Feb 19, 2024
Earth & Environment
Project Examines Key Role Soils Play in Keeping the Planet Cool
Anew project from the University of Central Florida is looking to the soils for a way to cool the skies.
Aug 17, 2023
Health
New Clinical Research Will Test Brain’s Ability to Adapt to Advanced Bionic Limbs
A new, first-of-its-kind clinical trial will examine how the brain adapts to advanced, bionic arms in children born without a limb, with the ultimate goal of improving children’s control of their prosthetic.
Mar 15, 2022
Physics
What happens when rain hits a hypersonic missile?
University of Central Florida researchers are part of a new $1 million project funded by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research to better understand and predict how and why raindrops are affected when they cross a hypersonic shock wave.
Feb 8, 2022
Space
First-of-its-Kind Study Finds Lightning Impacts Edge of Space in Ways not Previously Observed
Ateam of researchers working with data collected by the Incoherent Scatter Radar (ISR) at the Arecibo Observatory, satellites, and lightning detectors in…
Jun 15, 2021
Physics
Arecibo Observatory Helps Researchers Find Possible ‘First Hints’ of Low-Frequency Gravitational Waves
Data from Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico has been used to help detect the first possible hints of low-frequency disturbances in the curvature of space-time.
Jan 12, 2021
Space
What a View: OSIRIS REx Mission Captures Images of Test Run Maneuver near Asteroid
NASA’s OSIRIS REx team, which includes two professors from the University of Central Florida, completed a dress rehearsal of maneuvers it expects to make when its mission to collect a sample from an ancient asteroid comes to its climax.
Apr 27, 2020