New Study Offers Clues to Origin of Laws

Speculation about where laws come from ranges from crediting judges and legal scholars to God. However new research co-authored by a University of Central Florida researcher and appearing in the...

A Most Prestigious Award

UCF announced this week twenty-four students that will be inducted into the 2020 Order of Pegasus. These students are recognized for their exemplary performance and breadth of accomplishments. Seven graduate...

UCF Researchers Develop Device That Mimics Brain Cells Used for Human Vision

University of Central Florida researchers are helping to close the gap separating human and machine minds. In a study featured as the cover article appearing today in the journal Science Advances,...

NASA’s New Horizons Mission Finds Window into the Solar System’s Cold, Dusty Origins

NASA’s New Horizons team, which has been studying the asteroids in the Kuiper Belt, has found more clues about the earliest days of the solar system. “What we found is...

Student Research: Working to Mitigate Sexual Dangers for Teens Online

Afsaneh Razi is working to develop software that will help keep teens safe from sexual propositions online. She conducts her work in the Socio-Technical Interaction Research (STIR) Lab at the...

Arecibo Observatory Discovers Moon Orbiting near-Earth Asteroid

Scientists at the Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico have discovered a moon orbiting the near-Earth asteroid 2020 BX12. Orbiting moons have been detected in fewer than 15% of all near-Earth...

Student Research: On the Cutting Edge of Attosecond Science

Physics doctoral candidate John Beetar spends his day studying how electrons interact on an extremely short timescale, called attoseconds. At this scale, electron dynamics are still not very well understood,...

UCF Working to Improve Healthcare Delivery in Rural America

If you’re sitting in a downtown office building in a major U.S. city, access to rural healthcare may seem like a distant concern. But consider this: About 60 million people, or...

UCF Researchers Work to Develop Cleaner-Burning, Renewable Fuels

Biofuels offer potential benefits as renewable fuels with cleaner emissions, but with thousands of types of biofuels to choose from, it makes it hard for the energy sector to focus...

UCF Professors’ Space Podcast Leads to Radio Show Invitation

About 5,000 people a month around the world tune into a space-related podcast launched by three University of Central Florida professors. What started out as conversations while walking to get...