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...

New NASA Flight Opportunities Include Funding for UCF Planetary Scientist

NASA has selected research from a University of Central Florida planetary scientist to fly on upcoming zero-gravity flights as part of the space agency’s Flight Opportunities funding program. The research...

UCF Researcher Is Working to Extend Battery Life in Smartphones, Electric Cars

A University of Central Florida researcher is working to make portable devices and electric vehicles stay charged longer by extending the life of the rechargeable lithium-ion batteries powering them. Assistant...