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First Images from OSIRIS REx Mission Have Scientists Buzzing with Excitement
The holidays came early for the science team-leading NASA’sOSIRIS-REx mission to collect samples from a near-Earth asteroid. Today they announced findings from the mission thus far, which arrived at asteroid...
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Top 10 Research Findings of 2018
The University of Central Florida’s football players are not the only Knights dominating their field in 2018. This year was also a spectacular one for research at UCF. Not only...
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UCF Joins Ford, Uber as Semifinalists in National Competition to Make Driving Safer
University of Central Florida researchers have beat nearly50 other teams in a national traffic-safety-improvement competition and now find themselves the only university team competing among industry giants such as Ford...
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Alumnus to Speak to United Nations
Albert Manero ’12 ’14MS ’16PhD, the president of UCF based Limitless Solutions will serve on a panel at the United Nations headquarters in New York on Monday, Dec. 3, as...
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New Program Helps Cover Child Care Fees for Student Parents
Graduate student Cara Veclotch is planning her December graduation thanks to a UCF program that helped her pay for her children’s child care expenses. UCF’s on-campus childcare center – the Creative...
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1st Nation to Ban Harmful Sunscreens as Result of UCF Research
The island Republic of Palau in the western Pacific Ocean is the first nation to ban environmentally harmful sunscreens, effective 2020, to protect one of the world’s most diverse marine...
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New Arecibo Observatory Message Challenge Announced
In 1974, the Arecibo Observatory made history by beaming the most powerful radio message into deep space ever made. The famous Arecibo Message was designed by the AO 74’s staff,...
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Racing to Save the Indian River Lagoon
From red tide to runoff, the Indian River Lagoon faces many threats. Microplastics may be the newest identified enemy, but a team of UCF researchers and collaborators is racing to...
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Antioxidant Protects Tissues, DNA from Radiation, New Research Finds
New research shows that a powerful antioxidant may be just as useful one-day protecting beachgoers and cancer patients from radioactive rays as it could astronauts. In a recent study published...
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