UVA’s Yu Meng wins NSF CAREER Award to help AI learn from messy, incomplete data — for better results in everything from accurate hospital records to scientific discovery.

In a study of parakeets, researchers with the University of Cincinnati and Duke University found that sex doesn't decide who initiates fights, who is targeted or who rises in the dominance hierarchy.

In two Indigenous communities living pre-industrial lifestyles in the Bolivian Amazon, dementia is remarkably uncommon. However, a new longitudinal study reveals why earlier estimates told only part of the story.

Among the Tsimané and Mosetén communities, dementia incidence, or the rate of new cases, didn’t dramatically differ from rates in U.S. and northern European populations, especially for individuals under 80 years old. Shorter survival after dementia develops appears to play a significant role in why dementia prevalence – the total proportion of people living with the disease at a given time – in the Tsimané and Mosetén populations is unusually low.

“The surprising finding was that there weren’t big differences in dementia incidence,” said lead author Margaret Gatz, a professor of psychology and gerontology at USC and a senior scientist at the USC Center for Economic and Social Research. “That challenges us to identify the risk factors for developing dementia in the Tsimané population.”

Irrigating U.S. crops prevents higher greenhouse gas emissions by avoiding land conversion, groundbreaking new research by Colorado State University shows.

Eighty years ago, a massive tsunami devastated parts of Hawaii, Alaska, Washington and Oregon following an earthquake off the coast of Alaska. A Michigan State University team is partnering with the University of Hawaii to launch a project to study the underwater fault system where it originated – and whether it still poses a risk today.

The U.S. National Science Foundation is investing $20 million in a two-year pilot led by UCF’s National Commercialization and Translation Institute to help NSF-funded small businesses overcome the “valley of death” and move late-stage deep technologies toward commercial success. The pilot will also evaluate approaches that could inform a scalable, long-term model.