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Rochester researchers have gathered the first field data that show the Earth鈥檚 inner core is only about 565 million years old鈥攔elatively young compared to the age of our 4.5-billion-year-old planet.

New Rochester research may help explain the connection between high blood pressure and Alzheimer's disease, and it's all to do with how the brain pumps away waste.

Two high school seniors have been designated as Scholars in the prestigious Regeneron Science Talent Search for research they carried out last summer at the University's Laboratory for Laser Energetics.

While the world may appear stable, our eyes are always jittering. Rochester research is showing how these eye movements, once thought to be inconsequential, are critical to our visual system.

New Rochester research points to the presence of 鈥渟elfish genes,鈥� whose flow among species may dictate whether two species converge or diverge.

In addition to their Nobel noteworthiness, Rochester researchers continue to develop new ways to apply lasers in research, medicine, and everyday life in 2018. Because frankly, we鈥檙e big on lasers.

In each of more than 40 paintings of the same scene鈥擫ondon's Waterloo Bridge鈥擨mpressionist artist Claude Monet manipulates viewer perception in a way that scientists at the time did not completely understand.

Three scholars with ties to the University of Rochester received the Nobel Prize in their fields at the 2018 ceremony in Stockholm, Sweden. The Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to both聽Donna Strickland 鈥�89 (PhD) and her graduate advisor and former senior scientist G茅rard Mourou, for work that paved the way for more compact and precise high-intensity laser systems. In addition, Paul Romer, a former assistant professor in the Department of Economics, has been awarded a shared Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences for his work in endogenous growth theory.

Imagine if lie-detection apps became widely available on everyone鈥檚 phones or computers. Computer scientist Ehsan Hoque will use a new $1 million grant to explore the benefits and ethical risks of this type of tech.

Kara Bren of the Department of Chemistry and Robert Boyd of the Institute of Optics are being recognized for their 鈥渆fforts toward advancing scientific applications that are deemed scientifically or socially distinguished.鈥�

Rochester researchers are part of an international collaboration of scientists that has, for the first time, detected extremely high-energy gamma rays from one of the most powerful star systems in the Milky Way.

The solar and energy storage system, to be built on the roof of the Goergen Athletic Center, will offset energy needs of a new office building south of Hutchison Hall.