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Although classical memory—like the type used to store text messages between users—is relatively simple to facilitate, quantum information can't be stored, copied, or retained in this way. 

'The work that we're doing is fundamental to having high quality models of tissue you could use to understand disease progression and aging, and to validate new therapeutics,' said Professor Brendan Harley.  

"What many people consider ‘traditional marriage,’ with its deep ties to romantic love and personal choice, only became widespread in the last three centuries or so," says Illinois professor Robin Kar

Researchers developed a better model for the catalytic depolymerization of plastics, addressing a key obstacle to widespread plastic recycling. 

Professor Karen Tabb Dina's two recent studies explored issues of racial identity and its impact on health care access and utilization among nearly 8,000 U.S. young people.

A new study funded by the National Institutes of Health will collect the direct perspectives of young adults with Down syndrome and develop community resources to support their social, mental and physical well-being. 

Bubbling high concentrations of carbon dioxide into water is a deterrent to invasive Asian carp adults. Now researchers know the gas makes even the tiniest juveniles feel woozy and swim away.

Skot Wiedmann creates music on a palm-sized synthesizer he built in just a few hours. He can experiment with sound using his fingers on the surface to create chords and move up and down octaves.

Medicare’s 50th anniversary provides an occasion for a serious checkup of one of the federal government’s most popular programs

“We were able to identify cognitive-anatomical characteristics that predict general intelligence and account for individual differences in a specific brain network that is critical to intelligence..”

In the race against world hunger, we’re running out of time. But crop scientiest are looking for solutions.

The spines of Cylindropuntia fulgida, also known as jumping cholla, have a reproductive role. They latch on to passersby and carry small chunks of cactus flesh to new locations.

An iconic bird whose booming mating calls once reverberated across “the Prairie State” can survive in Illinois with the help of periodic human interventions, researchers report.

Carbon fiber heat shields decompose to dissipate heat during re-entry. It was assumed this only happens on the surface, but new U. of I. research show degradation beneath the surface as well, possibly threatening the life of the vehicle.   

Studies suggest that whole foods are better at stimulating post-workout protein synthesis than their processed counterparts, and that the fat content of whole foods may, in some circumstances, improve the rate of muscle-building.

It turns out the old saying that “It’s not what you know, but who you know” still holds a measure of truth in corporate America.

Considering higher education funding as an investment that lowers state welfare and prison costs, generates tax revenues and leads to economic growth in the future could reframe the debate.

The School of Art and Design Master of Fine Arts Exhibition will show the culmination of three years of work by 10 graduate students in art and design.

Crime labs’ DNA testing may influence arrests in just a small number of sexual assault cases, suggests a new study led by University of Illinois social work senior research specialist Theodore P. Cross.  

Researchers have found an easy way to produce carbon nanoparticles that are small enough to evade the body’s immune system, reflect light in the near-infrared range for easy detection, and carry payloads of pharmaceutical drugs to targeted tissues

'I think AI security research needs to expand. We hope to push the research to a direction that is more practical — security evaluation and mitigation that will make differences to the real world,' said professor Haohan Wang.

Excessive alcohol consumption can disrupt the liver’s unique regenerative abilities by trapping cells in limbo between their functional and regenerative states, even after a patient stops drinking, U. of I. researchers describe in a new study. 

A team of engineers has boosted the performance of its 3D inductor technology by adding as much as three orders of magnitudes more induction to meet the performance demands of modern electronic devices.

Despite awareness that many cancer patients are food insecure, most of the registered dietitian nutritionists interviewed by U of I researchers said they did not use a validated tool to screen patients for it.

The women in the study had difficulties accessing mental health treatment, child care and food. Their insights were used to identify programs that could help meet the needs of Latino communities during future emergencies. 

Illinois professor's new book is the first critical study of the Svasthanivratakatha

Psychology doctoral candidate Talia Ariss and her colleagues found that people who stared at themselves during an online chat tended to experience a lower mood after the conversation, an effect worsened by alcohol consumption.

"(The students) had to learn a few new skills, like how to hang food from a bear pole. Some also had to adjust emotionally to the idea of sleeping in the middle of grizzly country."

Illinois researchers developed a method that makes membrane-bound receptors reactive to light, triggering the Wnt pathway, important in embryonic development and cancer.

A new surgical tool uses light to make sure surgeons removing cancerous tumors 'got it all'

'Not a lot of good things happen to property values in the aftermath of a school shooting, and that effect persists, lasting for at least three years,' says graduate researcher Juan Sebastian Munoz

Illinois Natural History Survey mycologist Andrew Miller and his colleagues created the first comprehensive checklist of North American fungi.

Microscopic shifts in metabolism and increases in tiny transport vesicles out of tumor cells preface larger changes to the tumor environment and could prepare the way for cancerous cells to spread and metastasize

People who participated in a health education program that included both mental and physical health information significantly reduced their risks of cardiovascular disease and sustained those health benefits up to six months later.

Because of similarities in brain structure between fish and humans, the findings offer insight into the fundamental nature of parental care, U of I researchers say.

The study establishes a new framework for observing the elusive connection between lung membranes, oxygen flow and related disease.

Illinois researchers developed a new model that can help land use and infrastructure planners understand what today’s rivers might look like millions of years into the future.

The discovery paves the way to spot many more such objects, which could help astronomers address important questions on the true nature of dark matter

African American studies professor Merle Bowen argues that rural Black residents in Brazil deserve land reparations for the ongoing appropriation of their land by the Brazilian government and private interests.

Biochemists at the University of Illinois have isolated a protein supercomplex from a bacterial membrane that, like a battery, generates a voltage across the bacterial membrane. The voltage is used to make ATP, a key energy currency of life.

Many farmers think if they add plenty of nitrogen fertilizer, that nitrogen and carbon will be stored in the soil as organic matter when microbes decompose crop residue. New U of I research suggests those efforts might not work for poor soils.  

'Our technique would be a way to address the needs for active surveillance when patients are diagnosed with a low-grade cancer and are left with limited tools to observe the switch from indolent to aggressive disease where treatment is needed.'

Illinois engineers developed a model to calculate the age of nitrogen in corn and soybean fields, which could lead to improved fertilizer application techniques to promote crop growth while reducing leaching.

Ancient sea-water aquifers could be tapped to make Illinois an environmentally-sustainable and economically-viable location for production of marine fish

Satellite data is being harnessed by Illinois researchers for a more complete picture of cropland and to estimate crop yield in the U.S. Corn Belt

"The disciplines joined, the teams joined, and the computational programs joined. When you are open-minded and look to see what others can do, you are really better off."

Stephanie Hilger's book considers how 18th century European medical doctors shaped perceptions of 'hermaphrodites' - people who were deemed to have non-normative sexual genitalia - through case histories.  

English Professor Catherine Prendergast writes about a love triangle among members of a writers’ colony and their deaths by cyanide, set in the bohemian counterculture at the end of the Gilded Age.

An Illinois historian tells a new story about England’s famous “Domesday Book” and what it tells us about the trauma of the Norman conquest

Scientists have long known that corn and fungal genes interact, but until now, they didn’t know the molecular makeup of those genes in the fungus, or where they were located in the genome