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UConn researchers are studying the complex science of seizures. (Elizabeth Caron/UConn Photo)

Brain Awareness: Brainstorming Better Seizure Treatments

UConn researchers are studying the complex science of seizures, with the ultimate goal of developing new, more targeted, anti-seizure treatments.

Rock strata. UConn researchers analyzed leaf wax compounds in soils and sediment to reconstruct ancient climates, with a view to better understanding the impact of future climate change. (Getty Images)

New Method Unearths Climate Data from Ancient Soils

UConn researchers analyzed leaf wax compounds in soils to reconstruct ancient climates, with a view to better understanding the impact of future climate change.

(Yesenia Carrero/UConn Illustration)

Invasion of the Body-Snatching Fungus

UConn researchers recently documented a gory and fascinating relationship between periodical cicadas and a fungus that infects them.

Floodplain forest. (Photo courtesy of Robert Bagchi)

Hunting is Changing Forests, But Not as Expected

The impact of hunting on rainforest ecosystems is less dire and more complex than previously expected, says a new study led by a UConn biologist.

Blood moon during a lunar eclipse. (Shutterstock Photo)

Once in a Blue Moon

On the last night of this month, three lunar events will occur simultaneously, as astrophysics graduate student Yasaman Homayouni explains.

Colonies of a multi-resistant coliform bacteria (Escherichia coli). (Getty Image)

Sourcing Contamination in Waterways

UConn Professor John Clausen is designing a system to identify upstream contamination sources so they can be addressed.

Boy eating school lunch. (Getty Image)

National School Lunch Program Aces Safety Test

Eating at school may be safer for your children than eating at home, UConn study says.

An artist’s rendering of hot material falling into a supermassive black hole, creating what is called the accretion disk, shown in orange. Reverberation mapping measures the time it takes light to travel between two areas of the accretion disk. The 'light echo' enables direct measurement of the mass of the black hole. This reverberation mapping project is the first project to weigh many black holes at once. (Image by Nahks Tr’Ehnl, Penn State University)

One Giant Leap in Mapping the Universe

A UConn professor and graduate student are part of an international team using new 'reverberation mapping' technology to probe farther into the history of the Universe.

Engineers and technicians assemble the James Webb Space Telescope on Nov. 2, 2016 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. The telescope, designed to be a large space-based observatory optimized for infrared wavelengths, will be the successor to the Hubble Space Telescope and the Spitzer Space Telescope. (Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images)

UConn on the Front Line to Glimpse Farthest Reaches of Universe

Two UConn physics professors will be among the world’s first scientists to explore the universe using the new James Webb Space Telescope.

California Scrub-Jay nestlings on their nest in Berkeley, California, May 20, 1921. (With the Permission of the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology, University of California, Berkeley)

How Birds are Rescheduling their Lives Around Climate Change

'We were expecting them to only move in space, but we’ve demonstrated they also move in time,' says UConn researcher Morgan Tingley.