January 8, 2025
UC chemistry students are exploring the bizarre properties that make photosensitive lab-grown crystals bend, twist and explode. The crystals could improve air safety and aid space travel.
May 13, 2024
A biologist with the University of Cincinnati is raising public awareness about ways to keep birds from striking windows, a national problem that is leading to alarming declines in populations.
June 14, 2022
The omicron variant of COVID-19 spread most quickly in populated, urban areas in late 2021 and early 2022 but caused more fatalities in rural counties where vaccinations are lagging, according to an analysis by the University of Cincinnati. Researchers say COVID-19 exposed disparities in health care in rural America.
June 1, 2022
Researchers with the University of Cincinnati found that mosquitoes whose slumber is disrupted are more interested in catching up on their sleep than looking for food the next day. The research demonstrates how vital this biological function is even among insects.
March 11, 2022
Cavefish have obvious adaptations such as missing eyes and pale colors that demonstrate how they evolved over millennia in a dark, subterranean world. Now researchers at the University of Cincinnati say these incredible fish have an equally remarkable physiology that helps them cope with a low-oxygen environment that would kill other species.
July 14, 2022
A map created by researchers at the University of Cincinnati can predict with surprising accuracy how the racial makeup of neighborhoods will change.
July 22, 2022
A chemist at the University of Cincinnati has come up with a novel way to study the thermodynamic properties of molten salt, which is used in many nuclear and solar energy applications.
May 23, 2022
Biologists at the University of Cincinnati say nighttime light pollution can interfere with the remarkable navigational abilities of monarchs, which travel as far as Canada to Mexico and back during their multigenerational migration.
May 26, 2022
University of Cincinnati master's student Julie Barnes works as a veterinarian at the Cincinnati Zoo & Botanical Garden where she recently performed an ultrasound on a hippo.
November 18, 2022
University of Cincinnati biology students use QR scanners to organize care for birds in their lab.