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UF medical geographer Sadie Ryan co-led the largest comparative study on emerging infectious diseases ever conducted.

The research could provide new insights into cancer, neurological disorders and other diseases by revealing how cells change, where they are located and how they interact with tissue.

University of Florida chemist Austin Evans, Ph.D., has been selected for a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE), which is the highest honor the U.S. government gives to early-career scientists and engineers.

UF mathematician Vincent Vatter knew the brain teaser Digit Party displayed impossible “perfect” scores on some daily puzzles but could not figure out how to fix it until now.

UF researchers aim to solve real-world problems in coastal resilience, climate hazards, urban tree management, machine learning, severe weather prediction and plastic waste.

An experiment based in a lab in Sudbury, Canada, hopes to record the first detections of dark matter particles.

Faculty and researchers collaborate and innovate to gain a deeper understanding of our world.

Associate Professor of Biology Hannah Vander Zanden and Senior Associate in Geochemistry Jason Curtis work with stable isotopes through UF.

Explore new 2026 book releases from the faculty and alumni of the UF College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

Behind every dataset is a story waiting to be discovered.

Once dismissed as children’s entertainment, comics have emerged as a respected literary medium. At the University of Florida, the nation’s first graduate program dedicated to comics studies helped transform how comics are taught, researched and understood.

Astronomers found evidence offering a new explanation for why some planetary systems are misaligned.

A CNN story referenced a rocky planet, discovered by UF Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann, Ph.D., that was revealed to potentially have an atmosphere.

Undergraduate research opportunities at UF are helping political science students kick-start their careers before graduation.

UF Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann, Ph.D., was co-author of a study that revealed a rocky exoplanet of a nearby star may have an atmosphere.

The Magellan Clay telescope showed proof of helium escaping from a planet originally discovered by UF Assistant Professor of Astronomy Jason Dittmann, Ph.D., pointing to the potential of an atmosphere.

University of Florida doctoral student Ariadna Arnau is spending the leatherback sea turtle nesting season in Juno Beach, Florida, working with the Loggerhead Marinelife Center to better understand their feeding tendencies.

UF Assistant Professor of Biology Christopher Dutton, Ph.D., contributed to a project making robotic rabbits to lure invasive pythons out of hiding.

Two researchers are with the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences.

An article about defensive earthworks in northern Nigeria and the Sahel referenced the research of UF Associate Professor of Geography Olivier Walther, Ph.D., and political geographer Steven Radil, Ph.D.