Explore Magazine: Research at the University of Florida

Past Issues

Cool Chain: Grocers rely on a UF center to help them keep their products cool, from the field to your refrigerator.
Bodies In Motion: Researchers at UF's Biomechanics and Motion Analysis Lab use technology typically reserved for Hollywood movies to find and fix movement problems in athletes and others.
Shrinking Satellites: UF researchers are developing tiny satellites that could dramatically expand opportunities for space-based experiments.
Night at the Museum: A Colombian coal mine yields fossils of a school bus-sized prehistoric snake that succeeded T. Rex. as Earth's greatest land predator.
Dream Team: New additions are contributing to the McKnight Brain Institute's understanding of how the brain calls up new cells from its farm team throughout life.
Extracts: Research Briefs

Reef Relief: UF researchers are creating artificial reefs that give young grouper room to grow, helping to ensure a healthy population long into the future.
Cinderella Fruits: UF geographer Nigel Smith studies Amazonian fruits most of us have never heard of, but which might someday be grocery staples.
Vantage Point: UF's Ordway-Swisher Biological Station has been protected from ecological contamination for more than 70 years, making it a perfect choice for a unique national effort to observe future environmental changes.
Schools Without Walls: Education Professor Rick Ferdig seeks to understand the impact of virtual environments on gaming and education.
Codex Moment: Susan Milbrath combines art and astronomy to unravel a 500-year-old mystery about an ancient Mexican artifact.
Extracts: Research Briefs

Patient Power: Cancer care has a new paradigm, one focused on making it easier for patients to weather the storm.
Body, Heal Thyself: UF and Moffitt Cancer Center researchers try to teach the body's defenses to seek and destroy cancer.
Molecular Mountaineers: UF drug development researchers are forging new trails to cancer treatments.
Counting the Days: UF Cancer Survivor Program helps people transition from patient to survivor.
Tumor Team: Two UF neurosurgeons have spent decades inventing tools and techniques to destroy tumors with radiation.
Extracts: Research Briefs

Mission to Mars: UF Plant Researchers Are Developing A Way To Grow Plants In Space
Out of Africa: How did I get into this situation I thought as I a took a blood sample from a bright-eyed young man holding an automatic rifle.
Mutual Respect: Zoologist Todd Palmer's cha nce observation reveals new insights into the unlikely bond between Africa's smallest insects and its largest mammals
Fish Tale: Research at UF's Tropical Aquaculture Laboratory is vital to Florida's $50 million ornamental fish industry
Youngest Victims: Maureen Goodenow Leads UF's Efforts to Understand AIDS in Children
Extracts: Research Briefs

Time Capsule: Paleontologist Bruce MacFadden uses chemical clues preserved in fossils to tease out facts about 4-million-year-old giant sharks.
White Box, Black Box: UF bee researchers try to sort out what happens when bees already threatened by colony collapse disorder meet a growing population of Africanized cousins.
Forces of Nature: UF professors lead two of the most ambitious, costly and potentially groundbreaking research initiatives in modern physics.
Our Heaviest Generation?: Expanding waistlines mean kids today may be the first generation in history to have a shorter life expectancy than their parents, but UF experts are trying to change that.
Eyewitness News: UF communication researchers help newspapers track where their readers look, in print and online.
Extracts: Research Briefs