To help the 50 million people globally who live with dementia, the National Institute on Aging is finding researchers to develop tech-based breakthroughs that target the disease — researchers like the University of Florida’s “AI Queen.”

University of Florida scientist Rob Ferl took a giant leap for research Thursday when he became the first NASA-funded university researcher to conduct his own experiments in space during a flawless sub-orbital mission on Blue Origin’s New Shepard rocket.

A University of Florida Health physician-scientist led an international team of Type 1 diabetes experts who recently developed new treatment guidelines emphasizing wider screening for the disease among children and adolescents in the general population before symptoms arise.

When Hurricane Idalia hit the Big Bend region of Florida in 2023, Jeff Carney and his team were watching. A coalition of architects, planners, and landscape architects led by Carney worked closely with the tiny Gulf island of Cedar Key, which is particularly vulnerable to hurricanes, to prepare for this moment. The researchers had modeled for city officials how a major storm would flood the city’s core services

With stroke, every minute counts to prevent death or limit severe disability. Now, new data show that UF Health’s approach of sending a specially equipped stroke ambulance to meet paramedics at designated “rendezvous points” to take patients from surrounding rural areas significantly improves timely stroke care — on average, by nearly an hour. In stroke care, the “golden hour” starting with symptom onset is a critical window to minimize brain damage.

Artificial intelligence has hit a boom! Join doctoral student Christopher Marais and Dr. Tyler Carney in discussing the applications of new artificial intelligence in forestry. Where can AI make an impact and what should be left to the professionals?

Vegetable growers use herbicides to kill weeds to prevent crop loss. Meanwhile, a University of Florida researcher is using artificial intelligence to reduce herbicide sprayed on crops.

Adding one drug to a chemotherapy regimen for children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia decreased risk of relapse by about two-thirds, according to a study designed in part by John Kairalla, Ph.D., the senior statistician on the clinical trial and research associate professor and associate program director of the Children’s Oncology Group Statistics and Data Center in the College of Public Health and Health Professions’ Department of Biostatistics.

Home prices and rents in Florida have stabilized in the last two years following a period of rapid growth. However, a new University of Florida report on recent housing trends highlights a continued shortage of affordable housing for the workforce and seniors on fixed incomes.

Artificial intelligence is putting instructors and employers in an awkward position when it comes to accepting written work, leaving them wondering: Who wrote this? A human or AI?

Trust in scientific experts – even more than understanding their work – is the strongest predictor of support for artificial intelligence applications in agriculture. The finding is among conclusions reached by a new UF/IFAS study exploring Americans’ perceptions of AI-supported food and agriculture systems.