Elaina Hancock


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Fiery throated hummingbird resting on a branch.

Tiny Robbers, Big Feet

Some hummingbirds resort to sneaky methods to get their fill of nectar

Huijie Gan, an assistant research professor in the Department of Plant Science and Landscape Architecture, holds a soil sample and sensor she used for a project to assess soil health amidst a collection of other soil samples

Filling the Holes in Our Knowledge about Soil Health

Absolutely key to life on earth, assessing soil has been a challenging task, something UConn researchers hope to remedy

Researchers have identified the most distant active supermassive black hole to date in the James Webb Space Telescope’s Cosmic Evolution Early Release Science (CEERS) Survey. The black hole, within galaxy CEERS 1019, existed just over 570 million years after the big bang and weighs only 9 million solar masses.

‘Hidden Little Monsters:’ Researchers Find the Most Distant, Active Black Holes Yet

'I think of it as a "chicken-or-egg" problem of which comes first, the black hole or the galaxy'

Artist’s interpretation of an array of pulsars being affected by gravitational ripples produced by a supermassive black hole binary in a distant galaxy.

UConn Researchers Making Advances in the Detection of Gravitational Wave Background

A project that aims to create a whole new way of looking at the universe

An e-bike stands on a suburban street.

Connecticut: Get Ready for CHEAPR e-bikes

A sustainable future needs sustainable transportation. Here, a CIRCA expert details an update to a program to us move toward that future

Taiwan has some of the world’s fastest rates of mountain building. Studying the mountains of Taiwan provides insight into how the mountains are formed and grow. This view is st Hualien, Taiwan.

Research in a Place Where Geological Processes Happen Before Your Eyes

UConn researchers use ancient plant leaf wax – signatures for what happened millions of years ago -- to reconstruct the history of Taiwan's mountains

Students walking in the UConn Forest

Mapping Connecticut’s Understory from Outer Space

UConn researchers have performed one of the largest understory species mapping projects to date, and the findings are both surprising and promising

Bernard Akaawase piloting the drone.

UConn Ph.D. Student Developing Drone Technology to Better Study Waves and Air-Sea Carbon Exchange

'I always wanted to do science from an aerial view and when I finally got to fly, I fell in love'

A woman holds her smartphone above a salad bowl, tracking the calories of the food on a dieting app.

Diet Tracking: How Much is Enough to Lose Weight?

'You don't need to have perfect tracking every day to lose a clinically significant amount of weight'

Deer crossing yard in front of well.

White-tailed Deer Bones Give a Glimpse into Connecticut’s Past and May Help Inform a More Sustainable Future

'This contributes to broader discussions about how humans interact with their environment, and that there are ways that we can manage environments sustainably and interact with resources sustainably'