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Financial stress bleeds into our relationships. But partners who provide emotional support can help.

UF researchers find a partner who provides emotional support can reduce how much stress spills over from financial worries.

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Psychology researcher receives grant to study the effects of AI on human decision making

With the help of the grant and UF’s HiPerGator, the team will work to develop AI agents that combine visual decision-making, metacognitive monitoring and linguistic capabilities to facilitate interaction with human participants as the study progresses.

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UF chemist Austin Evans receives federal award to advance next-generation materials

Evans’ research aims to develop advanced materials for space-based electronics, energy technologies and other emerging technologies.

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Five CLAS Faculty earn prestigious NSF CAREER Awards

UF researchers solve real-world problems in coastal resilience, climate hazards, urban tree management, machine learning and plastic waste.

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Adrian Roitberg recognized by the American Chemical Society

In addition to his recent award from the American Chemical Society (ACS), Adrian Roitberg was also awarded UF’s AI Research Excellence Award presented by Alina Zare, director of AIIRI.

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How high scores in an online brain teaser made mathematicians lie for three years

UF mathematician Vincent Vatter knew the brain teaser Digit Party displayed impossible “perfect” scores on some daily puzzles but could not figure out how to fix it until now.

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UF physicists part of effort toward first-ever detection of dark matter

The SuperCDMS experiment is ready to take data with the cylindrical aluminum radon barrier installed around the shielded cryogenic SNOBOX containing the detectors.

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Cosmic river of gas may have tilted a young planet

UF astronomers offer new evidence to explain why some planetary systems are misaligned.

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