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University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

A look into how scientists spent the summer months tending a one-acre field at the University of Illinois South Farms.

Tapestry of Hope

Good Laboratory Practice

Gene Robinson and May Berenbaum to be featured on Reddit's Ask Me Anything

Gene Robinson and May Berenbaum on Reddit's Ask Me Anything

Cancer Drug Trials

Researhcers find that compared to top leaves, lower leaves of C4 crops such as corn underperform, costing farmers about 10 percent of potential yield.

Crop achilles' heel costs farmers 10 percent of potential yield

Climate Change will Affect Carbon Storage Levels, Richness in Midwest Soil

Climate Change to Affect Carbon Storage, Richness in Midwest Soil

Kinesiology and Community Health

Biomass Energy

Astrophysics

Carbon Mitigation

Wilfred van der Donk

Metabolomics

Neil H. Shubin, Robert R. Bensley Distinguished Service Professor of Organismal Biology and Anatomy at the University of Chicago and host, PBS, Your Inner Fish.

Neil Shubin, host of PBS show Your Inner Fish, speaking at Illinois

Researchers report Science an increase in plant productivity by boosting levels of three proteins involved in photosynthesis, showing increases of 14 to 20 percent in the growth of modified tobacco plants.

Scientists tweak photosynthesis to boost crop yield

Ethanol Production