A relatively simple device in your smartphone that counts steps, among other things, also has the capacity to be used as a listening device, according to researchers at the University of Illinois ...

Human beings have around 10 trillion cells in their bodies, resulting in about 10 billion miles of DNA - almost twice the diameter of the solar system. Coordinated Science Lab graduate student Zachary ...

Can an AI algorithm learn the rules of Western music theory without any prior knowledge of music? And can it express them in a simple form that humans can understand? According to Lav Varshney, ...

Training in research ethics is mandatory for many US graduate students and postdocs, but there is little evidence that formal classes prompt scientists to conduct research ethically. However, the ...

Illinois ECE PhD student Pratik Prasad Joshi was awarded the NASA Future Investigators in NASA Earth and Spa Pratik Joshi ce Science and Technology (FINESST) fellowship for his proposal ...

The bond between a parent and their child is forged within the first few weeks of life. The nurse places the baby in their parents’ arms where it will be comforted and rocked for countless hours of ...

Researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Meta, and concrete supplier, Ozinga, partnered on discovering better concrete formulas using AI. Written by Kim Gudeman, CSL The ...

As an Illinois graduate student who specializes in fabricating new semiconductor lasers, Tommy O’Brien is like a chef, making new wafers out of his own special recipe of materials, temperature, and ...

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has begun to build a strong team of quantum researchers. One of the rising stars in the area is CSL Associate Professor Eric Chitambar, whose research ...

Lara Waldrop, Illinois ECE Assistant Professor and Y. T. Lo Fellow in Electrical and Computer Engineering, has been selected by NASA to develop a Solar Terrestrial Probes (STP) Science Mission of ...

Four faculty members from the Illinois Grainger College of Engineering have received a total of $475,000 in grants to support projects through the Amazon-Illinois Center on Interactive Conversational ...