PODCAST · science
Explore Audio
by University of Florida
Explore Audio brings you narrated stories from the University of Florida’s Explore research magazine. In each episode, you'll find amazing discoveries and the determined and inspiring people behind them.
Episodes
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Space Exploration Hub
UF's new Astraeus Space Institute promotes research collaboration Featured Researcher: Rob Ferl See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Percy and LISA
UF space researchers play pivotal roles in major missions Featured Researchers (alphabetical order by last name): John Conklin, Amy Williams See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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9 Questions with Jason Dittmann
UF astronomer shares his research on exoplanets Featured Researcher: Jason Dittmann See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Mission Control
UF leads the way at the Space Life Sciences Lab Featured Researchers (alphabetical order by last name): Nils Averesch, Jamie Foster, Andrew Schuerger See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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A Harsh Environment
Making space more hospitable, for people and machines Featured Researchers: Christopher "Chrispy" Petersen, Rachael Seidler and Siobhan Malany See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Unpacking Hoarding
It’s one thing to keep your late mother’s hairbrush, but most of us wouldn’t feel the need to keep the hair stuck in it. For Dr. Carol Mathews’ patients, though, shedding items can feel like losing part of their identity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Leprosy is here
If you thought leprosy was eradicated long ago, you’re not alone. But each year, more than 200,000 people worldwide are diagnosed with the condition now known as Hansen’s disease, a bacterial infection that can cause irreparable damage if untreated. A UF team is putting science over stigma to…
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Targeting RNA
Chemist Matthew Disney is leading a revolution in drug discovery. Disney and his team at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology in Jupiter, Florida, have discovered more than 200 unique RNA-targeting compounds. His methods and discoveries have changed...
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Going Rogue
The Consortium for Nuclear Forensics, a University of Florida-led team of 32 scientists and engineers at 16 universities, has been awarded a five-year, $26.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop nuclear forensic technologies and train the next generation of nuclear sleuths....
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Interview: Stacey Steinberg on "sharenting"
What happens when moments you share online embarrass your kids — or worse? What rights do kids and parents have about what's posted on social media? We talked to University of Florida legal expert Stacey Steinberg about the legal and social questions surrounding what families and others share and...
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Can tech tackle pythons?
Pythons aren't just a South Florida problem. Jump into the swamp with UF scientists using radio tags to slow their spread. Story with visuals: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/can-tech-tackle-pythons.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Antibiotic Avengers
The U.S. government has recruited an elite team of University of Florida researchers for a crucial mission: to develop a new antibiotic to counter deadly pathogens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Unlocking VR's potential for autistic people
With ASD diagnoses on the rise — affecting 1 in 36 children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — using technology to better serve young people with autism could have sweeping impacts on education, employment and independent living. One group is putting people with ASD in...
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New Focus for Small Satellites
The University of Florida spinoff company Satlantis leverages deep-space astronomy technology to provide solutions closer to home. Story with images: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/satellite-mounted-telescopes-get-a-new-focus-earth.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Field Tested
After a near-fatal accident, Anita Marshall faced daunting odds to finish the fieldwork required for her degree. Now a University of Florida professor, she launched a fully accessible #NSFfunded field course that's removing barriers to STEM careers for students with disabilities. To see this…
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No Time to be Patient
University of Florida genetics doctoral student Shandra Trantham embarked on a mission to cure her rare disease. Now she’s finding answers for one that’s even rarer. Story and photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/no-time-to-be-patient.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Byte Test
Drawing on decades of taste test data, University of Florida horticultural scientists are leveraging artificial intelligence to predict which new fruit varieties consumers will love, bringing tastier produce to our tables faster. Story and photos:...
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Jaws of Life
A University of Florida evolutionary biologist is studying how sharks regenerate teeth, and if they could provide insights into how humans might regenerate teeth, and other body parts. Story and images: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/could-sharks-teach-us-how-to-grow-new-teeth.html See...
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Revealing the Ancestry "Blind Spot"
Engineering and anthropology researchers at the University of Florida are leading a call to ensure that the cells used in biomedical research are as diverse as the people who stand to benefit from new treatments. Story with photos:...
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Family Medicine
University of Florida geneticist Eric Wang has spent his career seeking treatments for a form of muscular dystrophy that has impacted several members of his family, including his father. Story with photos:...
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Native Voices
University of Florida scholars are digitizing and transcribing hundreds of hours of interviews conducted during the 1960s and ‘70s with Native Americans throughout the Southeast so they can be preserved, shared and repatriated to their subjects’ tribes. Story with photos:...
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One Small Sprout
Scientists at the University of Florida have grown plants in soil from the moon, a first in human history and a milestone in lunar and space exploration. Using lunar soil brought back to Earth during the Apollo missions, the researchers showed that plants can successfully germinate, paving the…
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Safer Stores, Safer Streets
Researchers with the Loss Prevention Research Team at the University of Florida are pioneering high-tech solutions to retail theft. More than $44 billion in merchandise goes missing across the United States each year, but through collaborations with computer engineers, sociologists and political...
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Age of Discovery
The 27,000-acre DeLuca Preserve was gifted to the University of Florida to protect one of the last natural areas of its kind and to serve as a living classroom and laboratory for faculty and students. Story with photos:...
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Revolution In the Field
University of Florida researchers are part of the fourth agricultural revolution, using artificial intelligence, drones, robots and other intelligent devices to improve and protect crops from harmful pests and diseases. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Trusting Tech
University of Florida researchers are using artificial intelligence methods to develop algorithms that can detect deepfakes — images, text, video and audio that purport to be real but aren't, identify hardware trojans that can compromise computers, and teach "smart" cameras to focus on specific...
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CSI: Alzheimer's
Dozens of University of Florida biomedical researchers are tackling Alzheimer’s disease, searching for clues to its causes and for better ways to treat patients. The neurodegenerative disease is projected to afflict more than 12 million Americans by 2050. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy...
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The Science of Reading
University of Florida education experts are providing teachers and parents with innovative new tools to demystify the process of teaching children to read, and helping the state put more books in struggling students’ hands. To read the article, visit...
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Flower Power
University of Florida agricultural researchers are working to establish carinata, a common mustard plant that has potential as a sustainable fuel and livestock feed, as a new crop in the Southeast. To read the article, visit https://explore.research.ufl.edu/flower-power.html See...
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Building Blocks
Concrete has been a common building material for thousands of years, but as a warming climate creates new challenges, University of Florida civil and coastal engineering Professor Christopher Ferraro is studying new ways to make strong, sustainable concrete. To read the article, visit...
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Vital Signs
University of Florida medical researchers are developing artificial intelligence tools that will benefit patients by unlocking data buried in electronic health records, reporting readings from sensors that monitor patients, and recording real-time data from more traditional tools like…
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Capturing a World of Data
University of Florida researchers are applying artificial intelligence tools to images and sounds to address the critical challenge of extracting the best data generated by an ever-more-closely monitored environment and using it to save global biodiversity. Read the article:...
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All-Seeing Algorithms
University of Florida philosophy Associate Professor Duncan Purves talks about the importance of building ethics into artificial intelligence systems. Algorithms determine the actions of machines, so it’s important to ensure that people know how their data that feeds those algorithms is being…
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Drilling Down
University of Florida microbiologist Brent Christner leads a team drilling down to a lake under a thousand meters of ice near the South Pole to see what kinds of life exist there and what that tells us about the Antarctic environment in a warming world. Read the article:...
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Data Prospecting
University of Florida researchers discuss how the university’s artificial intelligence initiative and one of the world’s most powerful AI supercomputers is changing the way they conduct collaborative science and prepare students for an AI-enabled world. Read the article:...
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Hive Help
University of Florida entomologist Jamie Ellis leads efforts to understand and protect the honeybees that pollinate 20 percent of the food we eat. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/hive-help-honey-bee.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
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Digging for the Truth
University of Florida forensic anthropologist Phoebe Stubblefield helps search for the missing dead from the Tulsa Massacre that wiped out a thriving Black community in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1921. Read the article: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/digging-for-the-truth.html See…
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Explore Audio brings you narrated stories from the University of Florida’s Explore research magazine. In each episode, you'll find amazing discoveries and the determined and inspiring people behind them.
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