Farming on Mars will be a lot harder than ‘The Martian’ made it seem. Growing plants in Red Planet soil will require adding nutrients and removing toxic chemicals. Full Story
Piyush Jain, Ph.D., Assistant Professor in the Department of Chemical Engineering at UF Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering, has been improving existing methods for testing COVID-19 samples from nasal swab. Full Story
Throughout the State University System, teams of professors and researchers are working on COVID-19 projects underwritten by the universities and in collaboration with private partners and government. Full Story
USF researchers have been awarded a $900,000, four-year grant from the National Science Foundation to use artificial intelligence to fight mosquito-borne diseases Full Story
Collaboration with Brazilian researchers will focus on sharing datasets in real time for improved weather and climate change predictions Full Story
Researchers at Florida Polytechnic University are working on a way to identify ransomware before it can be downloaded by users. Full Story
Department of Physics professor Clifford Will has received the 2021 Einstein Prize from the American Physical Society (APS) for “outstanding contributions to observational tests of general relativity with theories of gravitational waves, astrophysical black holes, and neutron stars.” Full Story
The discovery serves as a connector, the missing link, between known categories of black holes: smaller black holes known as stellar mass black holes, and the largest black holes known as supermassive black holes. Full Story
Pregnancy, restaurants and first responders are among the topics in a research effort topping $1 million. Full Story
When Feng-Hao Liu was recently awarded the National Science Foundation’s coveted early career award for his proposed novel methodology and research, which will potentially impact the future of post-quantum cryptography, ultimately ensuring the future security of computers. Full Story