May 2, 2023
UC botanist Denis Conover tells WVXU that some plants sold at nurseries can escape to wild forests where they outcompete native species.
June 30, 2023
pretty ornamental shrub from Japan found in many people’s yards is sprouting wild in an increasing number of parks and forests across the United States. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati warn that the shrub, Siebold’s viburnum, is showing up in many public forests across southwest Ohio.
June 20, 2023
University of Cincinnati Assistant Professor Annette Rowe is studying the power of microbes that can use minerals to store an electrical charge and then recover that energy when needed — like an organic battery.
November 18, 2022
University of Cincinnati biology students use QR scanners to organize care for birds in their lab.
December 12, 2023
University of Cincinnati Associate Professor Takuya Konishi and his international co-authors described a new species of mosasaur and placed it in a taxonomic context in the Journal of Systematic Palaeontology.
December 15, 2023
Popular Science highlights a study in which UC Associate Professor Takuya Konishi describes a mosasaur new to science that was found in Japan. The Wakayama Soryu or "blue dragon" lived 72 million years ago during the late Cretaceous.
December 1, 2023
University of Cincinnati botanists found that plants at arboretums and public gardens inadvertently can seed wild areas with nonnative plants. Their study was published in the journal Ecological Restoration.
October 20, 2023
Beetle-mimic cockroaches suppress their immune systems to accommodate their babies. Understanding how these systems work in insects can help improve treatments for fibromyalgia and other immune disorders, University of Cincinnati researchers said.
November 7, 2023
UC biologists studied the changes that take place in cockroaches that give birth to live young. The research could shed light on autoimmune disorders in people.
January 17, 2024
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati found that wolf spiders can’t signal others or perceive danger from predators as easily after it rains. Even communicating with would-be mates is harder when rain saturates the forest floor.