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In a new paper, scientists suggest that efforts to understand human cognition should expand beyond the study of individual brains. They call on neuroscientists to incorporate evidence from social science disciplines to better understand…

A robotic neurosurgical device created by a Carle Illinois College of Medicine student may offer a new kind of emergency treatment for traumatic brain injury in low-resource countries. Al Smith, the student spearheading the innovation, is…

Dance professor Cynthia Oliver has been named a 2021 Doris Duke Artist.Designed to invest in the creative potential of dedicated artists, the honor comes with an award of $275,000 that is both an investment in and a recognition of the…

Humans have been aware of the strange phenomenon of magnetism for over 2,000 years. From ancient Greece through modern times, researchers have steadily improved upon humanity’s fundamental understanding of magnets. For over 100 years,…

Mary Henson, the wife of the legendary Fighting Illini basketball coach and ambassador Lou Henson, will serve as grand marshal of the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign 2021 Homecoming Parade.The parade will take place Saturday, Oct.…

A new national initiative to enable geospatial data-driven scientific discovery will create a $15-million institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign to better understand the risks and impacts of climate change and…

A new sensor can detect not only whether a virus is present, but whether it’s infectious – an important distinction for containing viral spread.Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators developed the…

People infected with the original strain of the virus that causes COVID-19 early in the pandemic produced a consistent antibody response, making two main groups of antibodies to bind to the spike protein on the virus’s outer surface.…

Rochelle Sennet, a professor of piano in the School of Music at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, recorded suites by J.S. Bach and by a variety of Black composers in her project “Bach to Black” to broaden the appeal of each to…

In an effort to nurture a regional innovation ecosystem and move more discoveries from the research lab to the marketplace, the National Science Foundation has established a Great Lakes Innovation Corps (I-Corps) Hub. The University of…