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graphic showing cancer cell bouncing off a healthy cell
Science & Technology
October 31, 2017 | 02:43 pm

Rochester chemists find new means to ‘block’ cancer cell growth

A pathway that enables embryonic cells to develop into different organs can be reactivated by cancer cells. A cyclic peptide has been found that can block the activation of this pathway, and is also less likely to trigger resistance in cancer cells.

topics: cancer, Department of Chemistry, featured-post, Natural Sciences, research finding, Rudi Fasan, School of Arts and Sciences,
Donald Batesky holds test tubes in the lab
Science & Technology
October 25, 2017 | 09:00 am

At 85, chemist Donald Batesky makes late-career discovery

Back in 1959, early in his career as a Kodak chemist, Donald Batesky was lead author of a paper in the Journal of Organic Chemistry. Now the 85-year-old research associate is lead author again, for discovering a technique that had been overlooked for years.

topics: Department of Chemistry, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
hand holding a small flag
Society & Culture
October 17, 2017 | 12:08 pm

Political experts say U.S. democracy healthier than public thinks

The third Bright Line Watch survey, co-authored by Rochester political scientist Gretchen Helmke, focuses on the health of U.S. democratic institutions and compares the results from thousands of political professionals with the general public.

topics: Department of Political Science, elections, Gretchen Helmke, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
Man with therapeutic glasses stares at an image of an eye on a computer monitor
Science & Technology
September 14, 2017 | 02:17 pm

Quadcast: Rebooting the brain for better vision after a stroke

Krystel Huxlin has developed rigorous visual training that can restore some of the basic vision lost to traumatic brain injury, stroke, or a tumor. Here Huxlin discusses how this therapy teaches undamaged parts of the brain to take over.

topics: featured-post-side, Flaum Eye Institute, Krystel Huxlin, Light and Sound Interactive, research finding, School of Medicine and Dentistry, vision,
rendering of a planet
Science & Technology
September 7, 2017 | 09:37 am

Climate change for aliens

For more than 50 years, the Kardashev scale has been the gold standard for classifying hypothetical “exo-civilizations” by their ability to harness energy. A team of researchers led by Rochester astrophysicist Adam Frank have devised a new system that takes into account the impacts of that energy use.

topics: Adam Frank, climate change, Department of Physics and Astronomy, exoplanets, planets, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
close-up of monkey
Science & Technology
September 6, 2017 | 08:23 am

Monkey sees. . . monkey knows?

Monkeys had higher confidence in their ability to remember an image when the visual contrast was high. These kinds of metacognitive illusions—false beliefs about how we learn or remember best—are shared by humans, leading brain and cognitive scientists to believe that metacognition could have an evolutionary basis.

topics: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, featured-post-side, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,
tents on an icy landscape
Science & Technology
August 24, 2017 | 12:51 pm

Icy air reveals human-made methane levels higher than previously believed

Professor Vasilii Petrenko and his team are studying the air trapped in ice cores that date back nearly 12,000 years, long before mankind’s use of fossil fuels, to separate man-made from naturally occurring methane sources.

topics: climate change, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, featured-post-side, research finding,
child looking confused
Society & Culture
August 22, 2017 | 10:21 am

Does guilt make for good parenting?

There isn’t much Judith Smetana doesn’t know about parenting teenagers. Her latest study in a nearly 40-year career as a professor of psychology, looks at the effect of using guilt as a parenting tool.

topics: Department of Psychology, featured-post-side, QuadCast, research finding, School of Arts and Sciences,