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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 tasks. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 information.

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 https://explore.research.ufl.edu/the-science-of-reading.html   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 thermometers and stethoscopes and blood pressure cuffs. To read the article, visit https://explore.research.ufl.ed...

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: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/capturing-a-world-of-data.html   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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 used and that the actions the algorithms drive are fair. Read the article:  https://explore.res...

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: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/drilling-down-scientists-searching-for-signs-of-life-in-antarctic-ice.html   See omnystudi...

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: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/data-prospecting.html   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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.

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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.