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People who strongly viewed sex as a leisure activity before and during the pandemic used their downtime to engage in more frequent, satisfying and creative sexual activity, according to a study by recreation, sport and tourism professor Liza Berdychevsky at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

People who viewed sex as a leisure activity enjoyed more, better sex during the pandemic

U. of I. natural resources and environmental sciences professor Eric R. Larson and retired Illinois State Water Survey engineer Sally McConkey explore the factors that support – and the methods for measuring – community resilience at the county level. In an interview, McConkey discusses their findings. Larson and McConkey are standing in the U. of I.’s Red Oak Rain Garden, which has won conservation awards for its incorporation of water runoff features into a functional landscape.

How do we measure community disaster resilience?

A field photograph of the Anio Novus aqueducts of ancient Rome. Photo courtesy Bruce Fouke

Layered limestone deposits give unique insight to Roman aqueducts

What’s the future of drones in counterterrorism operations and the Ukraine war?

Study links childhood poverty with insulin resistance, advanced cell aging

In a survey of more than 35,000 people, U. of I. anthropology professor Kathryn Clancy and her colleagues collected evidence that many individuals experience menstrual changes after COVID-19 vaccination.

COVID-19 vaccine recipients report changes in menstrual bleeding

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Poor diet, household chaos may impair young children’s cognitive skills

Will renaming carp help control them?

Anthropology professor Lisa Lucero and her colleagues are working to capture the history from Maya ruins before they are plowed under. Photo by C. Taylor. Photo copyright © 2022 VOPA and Belize Institute of Archaeology, NICH.

Rescuing ancient Maya history from the plow

Staring at yourself during virtual chats may worsen your mood

Will Russian invasion of Ukraine spark a global food crisis?

Undergraduate researcher Lilian Lucas, left, and geology professor Patricia Gregg found that additional pressure from thick overlying glacial ice can make volcanic systems more stable and slower to erupt than volcanoes without ice. Photo by Fred Zwicky

Just chill: Ice-capped volcanoes slower to erupt

Sanctions imposed against Russia and Belarus as punishment for invading Ukraine have had an effect but may only have meaningful consequences in the longer term, says Taisa Markus, an expert in securities law, cross-border capital markets and corporate finance transactions. Photo by Michelle Hassel

How effective have economic sanctions been against Russia?

Kinesiology and community health professor Marni Boppart, left, chemistry professor Jonathan Sweedler and their colleagues developed a new method to recover skeletal muscle after disuse. They report their findings in the Journal of Physiology. Photo by Michelle Hassel

New approach enhances muscle recovery in aged mice

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