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The team's modeling approach is significant to advancement in robotics, dynamics and control systems.

Scientists Map Complex Control System Behind Octopus Arm Movement

Categories Life & Non-humans, Physics & Mathematics

Muscovite mica is used in many materials science applications and is known for its extremely flat and flaky layers, making it highly susceptible to hostile environmental conditions.

Scientists Use Earthquake Statistics to Revamp Materials Testing

Categories Physics & Mathematics

quantum computing illustration

Scientists Race to Protect Computing Systems from Future Quantum Threats

Categories Physics & Mathematics

University of Illinois evolution, ecology and behavior professor Philip Anderson, pictured, and his colleague Bingying Zhang found that thin animal skin significantly dissipates the energy of a puncturing projectile. In their experiments, skin worked better than a thicker synthetic gel designed to mimic skin.

Thin skin significantly blunts injury from puncture

Categories Health, Physics & Mathematics

The Speech Accessibility Project is a research initiative to make voice recognition technology more useful for people with a range of diverse speech patterns and disabilities.

Automatic speech recognition learned to understand people with Parkinson’s disease — by listening to them

Categories Brain & Behavior, Technology

Brent Roberts

Conscientiousness, not willpower, is a reliable predictor of success

Categories Brain & Behavior

Illinois researchers have opened up the AI "black box" to gain valuable new insight about chemistry for solar energy applications. Pictured, from left: Professor Charles Schroeder, graduate students Changhyun Hwang and Seungjoo Yi, professor Ying Diao, professor Nick Jackson and graduate student Tiara Torres Flores. Photo by Michelle Hassel

AI Unveils Chemical Secrets for Solar Energy: Turning the Black Box Transparent

Categories Earth, Energy & Environment, Physics & Mathematics, Technology

Communication professor JungHwan Yang is a member of a research team that explored the biases associated with political polls posted on social media, how their results compare with those reported by mainstream media and their potential influence on public discourse.

Will social media polls accurately predict the winner of the U.S. presidential election?

Categories Social Sciences

The first author Thu Vu Phuc Nguyen, left, and Ido Golding investigated how coinfecting phages can impede each other’s entry into a cell.

Viral Traffic Jam: How Bacteria Fend Off Multiple Attackers

Categories Health

Rhanor Gillette, left, and Ekaterina Gribkova developed an AI that can navigate new environments, seek novelty and rewards, and learn in real time. Their research into the neural pathways that drive behavior in sea slugs and octopuses guided the work.

New AI ‘CyberOctopus’ Learns Like Animals, Navigates and Explores on Its Own

Categories Life & Non-humans, Technology

girls eating ice cream

Myths about intermittent fasting, debunked

Categories Health

Allen and his colleagues found evidence supporting the idea that changes to the gut microbiome play a role in the system-wide inflammation that often occurs with aging.

Gut microbes from aged mice induce inflammation in young mice

Categories Health, Life & Non-humans

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