February 10, 2023
The University of Cincinnati’s collection of rare plant specimens is getting bigger thanks to a donation from a local botanist. UC Blue Ash is giving the late Diederik De Jong’s collection of plant specimens to UC’s Margaret H. Fulford Herbarium, which boasts a catalog of plants from around the world.
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.
May 24, 2022
University of Cincinnati biologists found that a double layer of silk in combination with a surgical mask can enhance its ability to prevent the spread of viruses like COVID-19.
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.
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.
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.
December 21, 2023
A University of Cincinnati biologist is working with teachers at two Cincinnati public schools to help them explain evolution using frogs that biologist Lucinda Lawson studies in Africa. Lawson works with Hyperolius frogs, a genus of 150 to 200 colorful species, including one she and her research partners discovered in 2019 that was new to science.
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.
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.
February 14, 2024
University of Cincinnati botanist Denis Conover shares advice about how to eradicate invasive Amur honeysuckle without herbicides.