Arecibo Observatory Data Help Lead to Discovery of Cosmic ‘Heartbeat’

An international team of researchers using data from Arecibo Observatory and the Fermi Space Telescope have discovered what they call a “gamma-ray heartbeat” coming from a cosmic gas cloud. The...

$1 Million Grant to Help Advance Machine Vision-Learning Technology

Engineering Professor Mubarak Shah was recently awarded a $1 million grant to advance his cutting-edge work in the area of machine vision learning (artificial intelligence) and develop a system to...

New Study Suggests ADHD- like Behavior Helps Spur Entrepreneurial Activity

Many people have experienced a few nights of bad sleep that resulted in shifting attention spans, impulsive tendencies, and hyperactivity the next day—all behaviors resembling ADHD.  A new study found...

Interim Director of UCF’s School of Modeling, Simulation and Training to Return to Private Sector Later this Month

Wes Naylor, the interim director of UCF’s School of Modeling, Simulation and Training (SMST), is leaving Aug. 17 to return to his private-sector job. “My position was always of an interim...

Broken Cable Damages Arecibo Observatory

One of the auxiliary cables that helps support a metal platform in place above the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico, broke on Monday (Aug. 10) causing a 100-foot-long gash on...

New DOD Award Honors UCF Researcher for Transformative Idea During Pandemic

Ayman Abouraddy, a professor in UCF’s College of Optics and Photonics, has been awarded the U.S. Department of Defense’s Newton Award for Transformative Ideas during the COVID-19 Pandemic. “The idea of...

UCF Team Wins Worldwide Competition in Computer Vision

A research team with the University of Central Florida’s Center for Research in Computer Vision recently won a competition to improve computer vision by creating technology that can automatically track behavior in...

Arecibo Observatory Returns from Tropical Storm Isaias Lockdown to Track Asteroid for NASA

he Earth has one less asteroid to worry about thanks to the research of an international team of scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico. Asteroid 2020 NK1 was...

UCF-Developed New Class of Laser Beam Doesn’t Follow Normal Laws of Refraction

University of Central Florida researchers have developed a new type of laser beam that doesn’t follow long-held principles about how light refracts and travels. The findings, which were published recently...

National Program Opens Door for More Underrepresented Students in Physics

When Taylor Douglas fell in love with physics and began to pursue it in college, she started to feel like an outsider. Most of her classmates were men and white....