Engineers: Wireless crib monitor keeps tabs on baby’s breathing
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Radar — the technology that tracks enemy bombers and hurricanes — is now being employed to detect another danger: when babies stop breathing.
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To widen path to outer space, UF engineers build small satellite
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It’s not much bigger than a softball and weighs just 2 pounds.
But the “pico satellite” being designed and built in a University of Florida aerospace engineering laboratory may hold a key to a future of easy access to outer space — one where sending satellites into orbit is as routine and inexpensive [...]
‘Second China’ offers foreign service workers first impression
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Diplomats or military envoys making their first trip to China may soon have a chance to visit a Chinese office building, stop in at a traditional teahouse or hop a cab — all before they board a plane.
Created in part by UF, world’s largest computing grid to launch today
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The world’s largest computing grid, pioneered in part by University of Florida researchers, will be launched today to crunch the mammoth amounts of data expected to be produced by the Large Hadron Collider particle accelerator in Europe.
UF, Berkeley receive $4 million grant to continue mapping with lasers
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — The National Science Foundation recently awarded a five-year $4 million renewal grant to researchers at the University of Florida and the University of California at Berkeley for the National Center for Airborne Laser Mapping, known as NCALM.
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Scientists close in on source of X-rays in lightning
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — University of Florida and Florida Institute of Technology engineering researchers have narrowed the search for the source of X-rays emitted by lightning, a feat that could one day help predict where lightning will strike.
Computer engineers: Virtual patients also experience racial bias
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — For black people, it doesn’t matter whether their color shows up in pigments or pixels. Doctors may be less likely to heed their complaints either way.
With $50 million, Florida universities to focus on renewable energy
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — With the cost of gas and electricity rising seemingly by the day, Florida’s universities will work together on research aimed at boosting a largely untapped resource: renewable energy.
Researchers develop neural implant that learns with the brain
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GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Devices known as brain-machine interfaces could someday be used routinely to help paralyzed patients and amputees control prosthetic limbs with just their thoughts. Now, University of Florida researchers have taken the concept a step further, devising a way for computerized devices not only to translate brain [...]
University of Florida professor designs plasma-propelled flying saucer
GAINESVILLE, Fla. — Flying saucers may soon be more fact than mere science fiction.