Diana Yates
According to two psychologists, the field of psychological science has a problem with the concept of self-control. It has named self-control both a “trait” — a key facet of…
Chris Beuoy
Surgeries to remove healthy reproductive organs are often a time drain for veterinarians and farmers. In the latter case, the process also causes animal suffering and economic…
Julie Wurth
Drought stress has long been a limiting factor for crop production around the world, a challenge exacerbated by climate change.
For more than a century, scientists have…
Megan Allen
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has funded University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign research that aims to connect the dots between quantitative and molecular genetics and…
Diana Yates
A newly funded U.S. National Science Foundation iBioFoundry at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign will build on more than a decade of research at the U.…
Liz Ahlberg Touchstone
Artificial intelligence is a powerful tool for researchers, but with a significant limitation: The inability to…
Diana Yates
I can barely hear Esther Ngumbi over the roar of greenhouse fans as she shows me around her rooftop laboratory in Morrill Hall. The benches are full of tomato plants, and the…
Lois Yoksoulian
Using evolution as a guiding principle, researchers have successfully engineered bacteria-yeast hybrids to perform photosynthetic carbon assimilation, generate cellular energy…
Jonathan King
Mohammed El-Kebir (CAIM/IGOH) is an assistant professor of computer science…
Ananya Sen
Previous scientific studies have indicated that North American dog lineages were replaced with European ones between 1492 and the present day. To better understand the timing…
Ananya Sen
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, a majority of schools across the U.S. shifted to virtual learning. In a new study, published in Social Education Research,…