2017-11-17
- Animal biologist develops app to see fishing lures through the eyes of a bass
2017-11-16 - From left, Matthew Hudson, Arian Avalos, Gene Robinson and their colleagues found genomic signatures associated with the evolution of gentle behavior in Puerto Rico’s Africanized honey bees.
2017-10-11 - Like a Hydra, some plants grow bigger and boost their chemical defenses after being clipped.
2017-10-06 - Several institutions to benefit from $16 million grant to research photosynthesis and water use efficiency
2017-09-01 - U. of I. animal biology professor Andrew Suarez and his colleagues describe the unusual mechanics that enable Myrmoteras ant jaws to snap closed in half a millisecond.
2017-08-16 - The wings of Megatibicen dorsatus, a prairie-dwelling cicada, are helping engineers design water-repellent surfaces.
2017-08-03 - Julian Catchen, Shane Campbell-Staton and their colleagues found genetic, regulatory and physiological signatures of natural selection in green anole lizards that survived a bout of extremely cold weather in South Texas.
2017-07-31 - Socially unresponsive bees share something fundamental with autistic humans, new research finds.
2017-07-24 - Researchers at the U. of I. found that plants vary a lot in the efficiency with which they uptake carbon dioxide and conserve water. Plant biology professor Andrew Leakey, left, mentored Kevin Wolz, who was an undergraduate at the time he conducted the research. Wolz now holds degrees in civil engineering and biology and is pursuing a doctorate in biology.
2017-07-22 - A new study measured robust changes in brain gene expression for up to two hours after a three-spined stickleback fish encountered another fish.
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2017-06-09 - The world’s oldest fossil mushroom was preserved in limestone, an extraordinarily rare event, researchers say.
2017-05-04 - Donald Ort is among four University of Illinois professors elected to the National Academy of Sciences this year.
2017-04-07 - Anthropology professor Ripan Malhi works with Native Americans and First Nations groups to analyze their DNA and that of their ancestors.