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.
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.
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.
August 23, 2023
UC researchers are studying the parasite responsible for Chagas disease to unlock new treatments to prevent its transmission.
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.
August 25, 2023
Sure, pythons can swallow a deer whole, but the world-champion eater is a harmless African snake with a fondness for eggs.
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.