August 23, 2023
UC researchers are studying the parasite responsible for Chagas disease to unlock new treatments to prevent its transmission.
April 10, 2023
An international team of researchers say new evidence suggests a mass extinction 260 million years ago was not a single event but two separated by nearly 3 million years, both caused by the same culprit: massive volcanic eruptions.
April 4, 2023
Planners have come up with many innovative ways to prevent flooding caused by heavy downpours — from planting rain gardens to installing green roofs. But few options work as well as a detention basin, researchers at the University of Cincinnati found. Cities are looking at better flood control measures in the face of climate change.
March 24, 2023
Many parts of rural America with less access to health care also have limited broadband internet that could help them take advantage of increasingly popular online health services.
March 30, 2023
Researchers are deploying the latest mapping techniques to identify the most important suburban habitat for North America’s largest woodpecker.
April 5, 2023
Scientists say the Marinoan Ice Age was one of the most extreme in the planet’s history, creating glacial ice that persisted for 15 million years. But new evidence collected in China suggests the Earth was not completely frozen — at least not toward the end of the ice age.
January 17, 2023
A local museum is highlighting a summer research program at the University of Cincinnati that invites students from across the country to the UC campus to work with faculty on sensory ecology projects.
September 16, 2022
Biologists at the University of Cincinnati found that it’s not just the size of a python's head and body that puts almost everything on a python’s menu. They evolved super-stretchy skin between their lower jaws that allows them to consume prey up to six times larger than similar-sized snakes.
September 6, 2022
University of Cincinnati assistant professor Pietro Strobbia uses chemistry to help the Cincinnati Art Museum solve a mystery about an ancient masterpiece.
July 11, 2022
The first year of the Perseverance rover mission on Mars captured the imaginations of scientists and the public alike with an interplanetary helicopter flight and the first chance to hear the sounds of the red planet. But two students at the University of Cincinnati say the best is yet to come in year two as the rover and their NASA science team begin in earnest to look for ancient life on another planet.