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 https://explore.research.ufl.edu/building-blocks.html

 

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 <a href="https://explore.research.ufl.edu/building-blocks.html">https://explore.research.ufl.edu/building-blocks.html</a>
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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.

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.

Narrated stories from Explore, the University of Florida research magazine

Explore Audio

Explore Audio brings you narrated stories from the University of Florida’s Explore research magazine. Each professionally recorded, 10- to 12-minute episode introduces you to some of the amazing science underway at UF while you’re doing other things – like commuting to work, going for a walk or cutting the lawn.

Explore Audio brings you narrated stories from the University of Florida’s Explore research magazine. Each professionally recorded, 10- to 12-minute episode introduces you to some of the amazing science underway at UF while you’re doing other things – like commuting to work, going for a walk or cutting the lawn.

Building Blocks

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.

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.

Unpacking Hoarding

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 stop the spread of Hansen’s disease in Florida and beyond.

Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/leprosy-is-here.html

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 stop the spread of Hansen’s disease in Florida and beyond.
Story: <a href="https://explore.research.ufl.edu/leprosy-is-here.html">https://explore.research.ufl.edu/leprosy-is-here.html</a>

Leprosy is here

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 minds, igniting a global race to treat incurable diseases via their RNA.

Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/targeting-rna.html

Chemist Matthew Disney is leading a revolution in drug discovery. Disney and his team at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation &amp; Technology in Jupiter, Florida, have discovered more than 200 unique RNA-targeting compounds. His methods and discoveries have changed minds, igniting a global race to treat incurable diseases via their RNA.
Story: <a href="https://explore.research.ufl.edu/targeting-rna.html">https://explore.research.ufl.edu/targeting-rna.html</a>

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