A study by UB and UC Davis researchers shows a non-invasive way animals can help monitor their environment.
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The research led by sociologist Ashley Barr found that the link between dropping out and crime varies, depending on how the student left school.
The nanomaterial vanadyl hydroxide behaves more like a pseudocapacitor than a battery when it forms as a star-shaped structure, a UB study has found.
A UB study sheds light on why some cells remain alive but no longer divide.
Under her leadership, the Clinical and Research Institute on Addictions will embody new strategies, such as AI, to advance addiction research, prevention and treatment.
The inaugural event will highlight student discovery and creativity across a wide variety of disciplines.
Rachael Hinkle’s work with machine learning intersects political science, legal training and computational methods.
A new study shows humpbacks shift pitch when a neighbor joins the song.
Simulation of Rydberg arrays inside an optical cavity shows photons and atoms don’t always rapidly settle at the same temperature and destroy quantum information.
The College of Arts and Sciences event will bring together leaders in neurodevelopmental disorders to honor Soo-Kyung Lee.
Evaluation of deep learning tools underscores the strengths, limitations and opportunities for next‑generation hybrid modeling.
The geographer is the first from UB to receive the honor, which recognizes exceptional contributions to the field through research, teaching or outreach.
The talk by the climate expert is part of the joint event exploring how Earth’s poles shape our climate, landscapes and future.
A DoD-funded project will investigate how fluorotelomers — once thought to be safer PFAS alternatives — penetrate zebrafish cells.
UB researcher Carrie Tirado Bramen explores astrological speculation and capitalism in Gilded Age America.
Soo-Kyung and Jae Lee, whose daughter has FOXG1 syndrome, developed the gene therapy that could one day treat people with this severe disorder.
The first-of-its-kind satellite system will use lasers to make high-resolution observations to map Earth's ice sheets and ecosystems.
A setback in growing light-responsive crystals led UB chemist Jason Benedict and his team to a novel method for mapping molecular arrangements.
A study suggests two Parkinson’s proteins can balance with each other to disrupt axonal transport.
The paper provides new insights into warfare’s lifelong health consequences, particularly for noncombatants.
A UB study has found that even fish that have adapted to dry climates are struggling amid rising temps and reduced water availability.
The results of the UB research are critical for predicting the mobility of PFAS in the environment and their potential impacts on human health.
A Spencer Foundation Vision Grant awarded to UB professor Ndubueze Mbah is already producing tangible results.
Although pain prevalence remained stable during the pandemic, researchers found a startling spike in 2023, with more than 10 million new cases.
A UB study examining social norms and behaviorial rules found that shifting minds may be the key to shifting behaviors.
A UB study characterizes two-dimensional wave patterns, such as the undular bores seen in a Chinese river, that move along two directions.
New research identifies high-quality listening as contributing to Kama Muta, the feeling of being “moved by love.”
The funding allows earth sciences researcher Sophie Nowicki to continue leading an international ice sheet modeling project.
Linked to neurological disorders, repeat RNAs aggregate inside droplets but can be disassembled with an engineered piece of RNA.
Festus Adegbola’s work on the BioSCape project monitors — from the air — how plants and wildfires influence bird diversity.
Susan Clark has some emergency preparedness tips that can help even the most seasoned Buffalonian as we head into the worst of the winter season.
Regional climate data should be useful to the people who live there, UB researcher Yifan Cheng says.
Potential federal policy changes would limit the funds to study outcomes that vary greatly across gender, socio-economic status and demographics.
Core samples from under Greenland's Prudhoe Dome ice sheet suggest the region is highly sensitive to the temperatures of our current interglacial period.
UB researchers identified a strain that can also break down some of the toxic byproducts.
As a child, Stephanie Poindexter loved watching the apes at the zoo. Now she's an expert in the slow loris, a noctural primate that inhabits Southeast Asia. In this episode of Driven to Discover, Poindexter tells host Vicky Santos what it's like to track down this shy creature in a Thai jungle in the middle of the night, and why she does it.
Hope and love aren’t often mentioned in the same breath as scientific research, but they’re the foundation of UB’s FOXG1 Research Center.
A study by UB researchers uncovers molecular clues about the neurotoxic effects of PFAS.
A UB study found that from 2002-18, the number of Americans attributing their disability to chronic pain increased by nearly 10 million people.
Projects range from the gender dynamics in an Indigenous South Pacific community to the prevalence of intersex traits among infants.
Chemist Jason Benedict is co-PI on the ChemMatCARS’ beamline at the Advanced Photon Source.
The UB chemistry professor is on the network’s list of 10 Americans whose Hispanic heritage is intrinsically tied to their work.
The two-day event aims to recognize and further elevate the profile of the college's distinguished faculty.
The publication has selected Yotam Ophir as one of its 10 “scientists to watch.”
UB archaeologist Douglas Perrelli and his students are conducting a dig on the site of Buffalo’s historic Michigan Street Baptist Church.
UB researchers’ experimental flume and object-detection models inform the ongoing construction of the Niagara River fishway.
An NSF-funded project gives graduate students with the UB RENEW Institute international research experience.
UB psychologist Peter Pfordresher is part of a study that provides a global view about how the world’s music and languages evolved into their current states.
The team will conceptualize a satellite mission that can advance understanding of Earth’s response to climate change.
UB scientists find 109 new candidate genes for human male infertility by analyzing gorillas’ unusual reproductive system.
The team works with faculty to plan, design, fabricate and repair the precision devices needed to conduct their work.
UB experts weigh in on the DEA's move to reclassify cannabis from a Schedule I to a Schedule III substance.
Trump’s ability to attract news attention doesn't rely on a specific platform, but on his ability to engage users, says UB communication researcher Yini Zhang.
UB mathematician Naoki Masuda’s theory determines which data points matter most when calculating early warning signals.
Emanuela Gionfriddo, who joined the faculty as part of UB's historic hiring initiative, studies environmental pollutants.
UB physics researcher Priya R. Banerjee has been awarded a seed grant from the Hypothesis Fund to explore the "big idea."
Citizen science teams across the path of totality will take advantage of a rare opportunity to observe the sun’s atmosphere.
Scientists transfer electron spin to photons, a quantum tech advancement that could offer rapid communication over interplanetary distances.
A research team aims to develop solutions to separate urine from solid human waste for use in environmentally and economically beneficial applications.
Liquid droplets of disordered proteins engage with — and overtake — the gene regulatory complex, UB physicists find
The theoretical foundations of recovery capital contributed to a paradigmatic shift in the science of addiction recovery.
UB political philosopher Alexandra Oprea says options need to be found for boosting turnout at the polls.
UB students in Kristin Poinar's Glacier Modeling Lab are mixing fieldwork with the latest developments in AI to map and understand the ever-changing glacial ice in Greenland.
UB scientist and partners have synthesized decades’ worth of NASA mission findings, including the rate of melting ice caps.
UB chemist Luis Colón has received an NSF grant to study how hybrid forms of silica, the chief component of sand, can help sleuth for PFAS.