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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

Brent Roberts

Conscientiousness, not willpower, is a reliable predictor of success

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

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?

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

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

girls eating ice cream

Myths about intermittent fasting, debunked

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

A driver with Lyft and Uber stickers on windshield

One-Third of Ride-Share Drivers Involved in Crashes: Cellphone Use, Fatigue, and Unfamiliar Roads Increase Risks

an illustration split in two. On the left is a brain, emphasizing its vascular system of blood vessels. On the right is a lab mouse sniffing the air

COVID-19 Infection Linked to Memory Loss and Learning Difficulties in Mice

Professors Erik Nelson, left, Kelly Swanson, and Brett Loman, far right, joined together on research using a mouse study on the gut microbiome and female sex hormones and their roles in metabolic dysfunction in postmenopausal women. Photo taken at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign on Tuesday, Jan. 23, 2024. (Photo by Fred Zwicky / University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign)

Mice study suggests metabolic diseases may be driven by gut microbiome, loss of ovarian hormones

Kent Hoskins

Breast cancer test may make bad chemotherapy recommendations for Black patients

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Acetaminophen use during pregnancy linked to language delays in children

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Menstrual cycles affect day-to-day suicide risk

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