UCF Researcher Examines Benefits of Supportive Communities for Older Adults

The number of Americans age 65 and older continues to increase as the baby boom generation ages and people are living longer. At the same time, many seniors plan to...

UCF Wins TechConnect Defense Innovation Award

Every year UCF takes technologies developed on campus to the national TechConnect Conference for exposure and this year one of them earned one of the top awards of the conference....

A Second Cable Fails at NSF’s Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico

The main cable that supports the Arecibo Observatory broke Friday at 7:39 p.m. Puerto Rico time. Unlike the auxiliary cable that failed at the same facility on Aug. 10, this main...

UCF Leads Study to Identify Factors Related to Preterm Births Among Black Women

The rate of preterm births in the U.S. has been on the rise during the past six years, with a stark difference in the rate of preterm births among non-Hispanic...

UCF CREATE’s Work with Children Featured in Pompeii Exhibit at Orlando Science Center

Visitors to the international Pompeii exhibit currently running at the Orlando Science Center (OSC) will get to see frescos from the city buried under ash — as well as frescos...

AI Teachers Must Be Effective and Communicate Well to Be Accepted, New Study Finds

The increase in online education has allowed a new type of teacher to emerge ­— an artificial one. But just how accepting students are of an artificial instructor remains to...

UCF Professor Briefs Planetary Sciences Community about NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Mission During Conference

It’s been a busy day for UCF Physics Professor Humberto Campins and the rest of the OSIRIS-REx mission team. Campins gave the science community an update about the evolving NASA...

UCF Project Will Study Smart Tech to Improve Risk Communication in Central Florida

The University of Central Florida researchers are leading an interdisciplinary project to help communities use artificial intelligence and smart technologies to bounce back from disasters quickly. The project is funded...

Sea Turtle Nesting Season Winding Down, Some Numbers are Up and It’s Unexpected

Florida’s sea turtle nesting surveying comes to a close on Halloween and like everything else in 2020, the season was a bit weird. The number of green sea turtle nests...

Cell Biology Gurus and UCF Bioimaging Expert Partner to Crack 4th Dimension Secrets

Cell biologists at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and Bar-Ilan University at Israel and a bioimaging expert at the University of Central Florida are teaming up in what they...