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A screen capture from Birth of Planet Earth modeling photosynthesis.

Reaching for the Stars: The awesome work of the NCSA Visualization Lab to explain mind-boggling science

Mar 26, 2025 10:30 am

NCSA’s visualization team has been creating stunning, multi-dimensional representations of data and information for many years.You've seen it in popular IMAX films, like 2010’s 'Hubble 3D', featuring narration by Leonardo Dicaprio or 2013’s 'Solar Superstorms' with Benedict Cumberbatch.

Illinois researchers are about to start a new phase of Mission Illinois, a study that will send a composite tube manufacturing machine to the International Space Station to produce new materials for space construction. Image courtesy Sameh Tawfick.

U. of I. kicks off new phase of program pioneering space-based manufacturing

Dec 9, 2024 8:45 am

After four years of DARPA-funded research in materials and U of I research in manufacturing and structure design, the project is sending aparatus to the International Space Station to test on-orbit manufacturing.

Credit: Photo by Bettymaya Foott/NSF NRAO/AUI, composition by U.S. National Science Foundation

SkAI collaboration launched to apply AI to space exploration

Sep 25, 2024 12:15 pm

'The massive amount of data that will be gathered in the coming years by large-scale astronomical projects is simply too vast and rich to be fully explored with existing methods,' said NSF director Sethuraman Panchanathan.

Grow forest management skills in Southern Illinois course for landowners

Sep 3, 2024 5:00 pm

The Beginning Forest Landowner Program is returning in 2024-2025 to help more Illinois forest owners learn how to manage their woodlands.

Plants grow in a container under red lights. Photo courtesy NASA Marshall Space Flight Center.

Study brings scientists a step closer to successfully growing plants in space

Mar 13, 2024 11:00 am

Highly stretchable sensors can monitor and transmit plant growth information without human intervention. The U of I study was funded by a NASA grant to investigate how wearable printed electronics will be used to make farming possible in space.

Beckman Institute postdoctoral researcher Dylan Burton

Postdoc Dylan Burton puts exams for interpreters to the test

Dec 19, 2023 11:45 am

This Beckman Institute postdoctoral researcher evaluates the language proficiency exams used to qualify interpreters who mediate conversations between school districts and multilingual parents of children with disabilities.

simulated image of a short gamma ray burst. No credit or cut line provided.

Understanding the brightest phenomena in the universe: The short gamma ray burst

Dec 13, 2023 11:00 am

Using NCSA’s Delta supercomputer, researchers are creating simulations to help prove their theories and dispel some of the mystery around why these bursts occur.

Have a super time at the Vet Med Open House on Sunday, Oct. 1!

Sep 21, 2023 10:15 am

The annual Open House at the University of Illinois College of Veterinary Medicine will be held on Sunday, October 1, from 10 am to 4 pm.

A Japanese gameboard from 1925 celebrates a remarkable aviation feat accomplished by four Japanese airmen - a 10,293-mile trip from Tokyo, Japan, to Rome, Italy, in just over one hundred flight hours.

Curiosities found in the U of I Map Library

Apr 13, 2023 2:15 pm

From illustrating fictional lands to helping you find your way home, these colorful way finders tell us as much about where we are as who we are.

The study focused on the north plaza, an expanse at a low elevation that is almost always inundated with water. Photo courtesy Caitlin Rankin

North 'plaza' in Cahokia was likely inundated year-round, study finds

Jul 21, 2022 12:15 pm

New paleoenvironmental analyses of the north plaza of Monk's Mound suggest it was almost always underwater, calling into question earlier interpretations of the north plaza’s role in Cahokian society.

This nearby, young, star-forming region called NGC 3324 in the Carina Nebula was captured in infrared light by NASA’s new James Webb Space Telescope. The image of the so-called Cosmic Cliffs reveals previously invisible areas of star birth. (Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, and STScI.)

Looking back in time

Jul 19, 2022 11:15 am

Doctoral student Kedar Phadke and astronomy professor Joaquin Vieira will be among the first to observe research images from the James Webb telescope as part of their study of high-redshift (very far away) dusty star-forming galaxies.

Tour the Business Instructional Facility

Jun 10, 2022 9:45 am

The Business Instructional Facility (BIF) is a state-of-the-art, collaborative space where business students learn and study.

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