Explore Audio
32 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 1 ratingExplore Audio brings you narrated stories from the University of Florida’s Explore research magazine. In each episode, you'll find amazing discoveries and the determined and inspiring people behind them.
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Unpacking Hoarding
April 10, 2024 13:23 - 9 minutes - 8.71 MBIt’s one thing to keep your late mother’s hairbrush, but most of us wouldn’t feel the need to keep the hair stuck in it. For Dr. Carol Mathews’ patients, though, shedding items can feel like losing part of their identity. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Leprosy is here
April 04, 2024 15:55 - 13 minutes - 12.4 MBIf you thought leprosy was eradicated long ago, you’re not alone. But each year, more than 200,000 people worldwide are diagnosed with the condition now known as Hansen’s disease, a bacterial infection that can cause irreparable damage if untreated. A UF team is putting science over stigma to stop the spread of Hansen’s disease in Florida and beyond. Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/leprosy-is-here.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Targeting RNA
April 04, 2024 15:52 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBChemist Matthew Disney is leading a revolution in drug discovery. Disney and his team at The Herbert Wertheim UF Scripps Institute for Biomedical Innovation & Technology in Jupiter, Florida, have discovered more than 200 unique RNA-targeting compounds. His methods and discoveries have changed minds, igniting a global race to treat incurable diseases via their RNA. Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/targeting-rna.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Going Rogue
January 11, 2024 19:14 - 10 minutes - 9.33 MBThe Consortium for Nuclear Forensics, a University of Florida-led team of 32 scientists and engineers at 16 universities, has been awarded a five-year, $26.4 million grant from the U.S. Department of Energy to develop nuclear forensic technologies and train the next generation of nuclear sleuths. Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/uf-led-group-develops-new-tools-to-track-illicit-nuclear-materials.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Interview: Stacey Steinberg on "sharenting"
December 20, 2023 16:09 - 8 minutes - 7.45 MBWhat happens when moments you share online embarrass your kids — or worse? What rights do kids and parents have about what's posted on social media? We talked to University of Florida legal expert Stacey Steinberg about the legal and social questions surrounding what families and others share and what to keep in mind. Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/snap-decisions.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Can tech tackle pythons?
December 06, 2023 15:28 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MBPythons aren't just a South Florida problem. Jump into the swamp with UF scientists using radio tags to slow their spread. Story with visuals: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/can-tech-tackle-pythons.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Antibiotic Avengers
April 10, 2023 19:43 - 11 minutes - 10.6 MBThe U.S. government has recruited an elite team of University of Florida researchers for a crucial mission: to develop a new antibiotic to counter deadly pathogens. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Unlocking VR's potential for autistic people
April 10, 2023 19:32 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBWith ASD diagnoses on the rise — affecting 1 in 36 children, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention — using technology to better serve young people with autism could have sweeping impacts on education, employment and independent living. One group is putting people with ASD in control of the research agenda. Story: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/vr-and-autism.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
New Focus for Small Satellites
December 07, 2022 15:11 - 12 minutes - 11 MBThe University of Florida spinoff company Satlantis leverages deep-space astronomy technology to provide solutions closer to home. Story with images: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/satellite-mounted-telescopes-get-a-new-focus-earth.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Field Tested
November 23, 2022 16:30 - 17 minutes - 15.6 MBAfter a near-fatal accident, Anita Marshall faced daunting odds to finish the fieldwork required for her degree. Now a University of Florida professor, she launched a fully accessible #NSFfunded field course that's removing barriers to STEM careers for students with disabilities. To see this story with photos and video, visit https://explore.research.ufl.edu/field-tested.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
No Time to be Patient
September 26, 2022 17:04 - 7 minutes - 6.96 MBUniversity of Florida genetics doctoral student Shandra Trantham embarked on a mission to cure her rare disease. Now she’s finding answers for one that’s even rarer. Story and photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/no-time-to-be-patient.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Byte Test
September 16, 2022 15:58 - 8 minutes - 7.76 MBDrawing on decades of taste test data, University of Florida horticultural scientists are leveraging artificial intelligence to predict which new fruit varieties consumers will love, bringing tastier produce to our tables faster. Story and photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/heres-how-ai-could-bring-better-fruit-to-your-table.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Jaws of Life
September 16, 2022 15:54 - 5 minutes - 5.4 MBA University of Florida evolutionary biologist is studying how sharks regenerate teeth, and if they could provide insights into how humans might regenerate teeth, and other body parts. Story and images: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/could-sharks-teach-us-how-to-grow-new-teeth.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Revealing the Ancestry "Blind Spot"
September 13, 2022 19:15 - 9 minutes - 8.68 MBEngineering and anthropology researchers at the University of Florida are leading a call to ensure that the cells used in biomedical research are as diverse as the people who stand to benefit from new treatments. Story with photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/revealing-the-ancestry-blind-spot.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Family Medicine
September 12, 2022 17:58 - 6 minutes - 6.1 MBUniversity of Florida geneticist Eric Wang has spent his career seeking treatments for a form of muscular dystrophy that has impacted several members of his family, including his father. Story with photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/this-geneticists-goal-cure-the-disease-that-runs-in-his-family.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Native Voices
July 29, 2022 13:24 - 14 minutes - 13.5 MBUniversity of Florida scholars are digitizing and transcribing hundreds of hours of interviews conducted during the 1960s and ‘70s with Native Americans throughout the Southeast so they can be preserved, shared and repatriated to their subjects’ tribes. Story with photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/native-voices-oral-histories-help-preserve-indigenous-heritage.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
One Small Sprout
July 18, 2022 14:22 - 14 minutes - 13 MBScientists at the University of Florida have grown plants in soil from the moon, a first in human history and a milestone in lunar and space exploration. Using lunar soil brought back to Earth during the Apollo missions, the researchers showed that plants can successfully germinate, paving the way for one day growing plants for food and oxygen on the moon and beyond. Story with photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/one-small-sprout.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy informat...
Safer Stores, Safer Streets
May 27, 2022 14:18 - 11 minutes - 10.9 MBResearchers with the Loss Prevention Research Team at the University of Florida are pioneering high-tech solutions to retail theft. More than $44 billion in merchandise goes missing across the United States each year, but through collaborations with computer engineers, sociologists and political scientists across campus, UF’s team works to thwart these criminals. Story with photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/retail-security.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Age of Discovery
May 27, 2022 13:59 - 20 minutes - 19 MBThe 27,000-acre DeLuca Preserve was gifted to the University of Florida to protect one of the last natural areas of its kind and to serve as a living classroom and laboratory for faculty and students. Story with photos: https://explore.research.ufl.edu/in-27000-acre-preserve-scientists-begin-age-of-discovery.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Revolution In the Field
January 27, 2022 23:18 - 15 minutes - 14.5 MBUniversity of Florida researchers are part of the fourth agricultural revolution, using artificial intelligence, drones, robots and other intelligent devices to improve and protect crops from harmful pests and diseases. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Trusting Tech
January 21, 2022 22:27 - 11 minutes - 10.7 MBUniversity 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.
CSI: Alzheimer's
December 21, 2021 18:12 - 16 minutes - 15.5 MBDozens 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.
The Science of Reading
December 17, 2021 16:11 - 10 minutes - 9.31 MBUniversity 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.
Flower Power
December 17, 2021 16:04 - 11 minutes - 10.2 MBUniversity 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.
Building Blocks
December 15, 2021 21:17 - 12 minutes - 11.8 MBConcrete 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.
Vital Signs
December 07, 2021 20:52 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MBUniversity 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.edu/vital-signs.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Capturing a World of Data
December 01, 2021 14:47 - 14 minutes - 13.3 MBUniversity 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.
All-Seeing Algorithms
November 18, 2021 19:16 - 11 minutes - 10.4 MBUniversity 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.research.ufl.edu/all-seeing-algorithms.html See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Drilling Down
November 08, 2021 20:18 - 9 minutes - 8.85 MBUniversity 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 omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Data Prospecting
November 08, 2021 20:17 - 14 minutes - 13.1 MBUniversity 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.
Hive Help
October 28, 2021 19:09 - 15 minutes - 14.1 MBUniversity 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.
Digging for the Truth
October 28, 2021 19:08 - 11 minutes - 10.3 MBUniversity 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.