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The U.S. government has recruited an elite team of University of Florida researchers for a crucial mission: to develop a new antibiotic to counter deadly pathogens.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

With ASD diagnoses on the rise — affecting 1 in 36 children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — using technology to better serve young people with autism could have sweeping impacts on education, employment and independent living. One group is putting people with ASD in control of the research agenda. Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/vr-and-autism.html  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The University of Florida spinoff company Satlantis leverages deep-space astronomy technology to provide solutions closer to home. Story with images: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/satellite-mounted-telescopes-get-a-new-focus-earth.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

After a near-fatal accident, Anita Marshall faced daunting odds to finish the fieldwork required for her degree. Now a University of Florida professor, she launched a fully accessible #NSFfunded field course that's removing barriers to STEM careers for students with disabilities. To see this story with photos and video, visit https://explore.research.ufl.edu/field-tested.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida genetics doctoral student Shandra Trantham embarked on a mission to cure her rare disease. Now she's finding answers for one that's even rarer.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Drawing on decades of taste test data, University of Florida horticultural scientists are leveraging artificial intelligence to predict which new fruit varieties consumers will love, bringing tastier produce to our tables faster.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

A University of Florida evolutionary biologist is studying how sharks regenerate teeth, and if they could provide insights into how humans might regenerate teeth, and other body parts.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Engineering and anthropology researchers at the University of Florida are leading a call to ensure that the cells used in biomedical research are as diverse as the people who stand to benefit from new treatments.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida geneticist Eric Wang has spent his career seeking treatments for a form of muscular dystrophy that has impacted several members of his family, including his father.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida scholars are digitizing and transcribing hundreds of hours of interviews conducted during the 1960s and ‘70s with Native Americans throughout the Southeast so they can be preserved, shared and repatriated to their subjects' tribes.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Scientists at the University of Florida have grown plants in soil from the moon, a first in human history and a milestone in lunar and space exploration. Using lunar soil brought back to Earth during the Apollo missions, the researchers showed that plants can successfully germinate, paving the way for one day growing plants for food and oxygen on the moon and beyond.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Researchers with the Loss Prevention Research Team at the University of Florida are pioneering high-tech solutions to retail theft. More than $44 billion in merchandise goes missing across the United States each year, but through collaborations with computer engineers, sociologists and political scientists across campus, UF’s team works to thwart these criminals.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The 27,000-acre DeLuca Preserve was gifted to the University of Florida to protect one of the last natural areas of its kind and to serve as a living classroom and laboratory for faculty and students.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida researchers are part of the fourth agricultural revolution, using artificial intelligence, drones, robots and other intelligent devices to improve and protect crops from harmful pests and diseases.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida researchers are using artificial intelligence methods to develop algorithms that can detect deepfakes — images, text, video and audio that purport to be real but aren't, identify hardware trojans that can compromise computers, and teach "smart" cameras to focus on specific tasks.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Dozens of University of Florida biomedical researchers are tackling Alzheimer’s disease, searching for clues to its causes and for better ways to treat patients. The neurodegenerative disease is projected to afflict more than 12 million Americans by 2050.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida education experts are providing teachers and parents with innovative new tools to demystify the process of teaching children to read, and helping the state put more books in struggling students’ hands. To read the article, visit https://explore.research.ufl.edu/the-science-of-reading.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida agricultural researchers are working to establish carinata, a common mustard plant that has potential as a sustainable fuel and livestock feed, as a new crop in the Southeast. To read the article, visit https://explore.research.ufl.edu/flower-power.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Concrete has been a common building material for thousands of years, but as a warming climate creates new challenges, University of Florida civil and coastal engineering Professor Christopher Ferraro is studying new ways to make strong, sustainable concrete. To read the article, visit https://explore.research.ufl.edu/building-blocks.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida medical researchers are developing artificial intelligence tools that will benefit patients by unlocking data buried in electronic health records, reporting readings from sensors that monitor patients, and recording real-time data from more traditional tools like thermometers and stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs. To read the article, visit https://explore.research.ufl.edu/vital-signs.htmlSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida researchers are applying artificial intelligence tools to images and sounds to address the critical challenge of extracting the best data generated by an ever-more-closely monitored environment and using it to save global biodiversity. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/capturing-a-world-of-data.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida philosophy Associate Professor Duncan Purves talks about the importance of building ethics into artificial intelligence systems. Algorithms determine the actions of machines, so it’s important to ensure that people know how their data that feeds those algorithms is being used and that the actions the algorithms drive are fair. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/all-seeing-algorithms.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida microbiologist Brent Christner leads a team drilling down to a lake under a thousand meters of ice near the South Pole to see what kinds of life exist there and what that tells us about the Antarctic environment in a warming world. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/drilling-down-scientists-searching-for-signs-of-life-in-antarctic-ice.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida researchers discuss how the university’s artificial intelligence initiative and one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers is changing the way they conduct collaborative science and prepare students for an AI-enabled world. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/data-prospecting.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida entomologist Jamie Ellis leads efforts to understand and protect the honeybees that pollinate 20 percent of the food we eat. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/hive-help-honey-bee.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

University of Florida forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield helps search for the missing dead from the Tulsa Massacre that wiped out a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/digging-for-the-truth.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.