Research News

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  • Explaining why RNA droplets form
    8/21/26

    UB-led research reveals that a tiny chemical difference between RNA and DNA helps explain why RNA more readily organizes into droplets when temperatures rise.

  • UB launches Center for Translational AI and Digital Health
    6/8/26

    Center will advance emerging medical technologies that improve the speed, precision and accessibility in which people receive care.

  • Quantum sensing for magnetism
    6/3/26

    UB scientists are proposing a quantum sensing system to make identifying altermagnets much simpler.

  • Even in winter, firefighters face danger in turnout gear
    6/2/26

    Jacobs School researchers warn that firefighters wearing turnout gear can face heat stress, even in freezing temperatures.

  • Forum brings together earth sciences students
    5/27/26

    Eighteen undergraduate students and a few postdoctoral candidates presented their research to 100 attendees at the Buffalo Science Museum. 

  • Job got you stressed?
    5/21/26

    In the season finale of the Driven to Discover podcast, UB workplace behavior expert Min-Hsuan Tu offers some practical advice for a frustrated workforce.

  • Can AI help spot ‘healthy’ viruses in our bodies?
    5/21/26

    UB researchers have been awarded $1.6 million grant to use lab methods and AI to probe the human virome.

  • UB to host Marie Curie fellow
    5/20/26

    Art historian Ilenia Pittui will conduct research at UB on the iconography of the Ottoman and Safavid worlds.

  • Swihart receives mentoring award
    5/18/26

    The SUNY Distinguished Professor is the 2026 recipient of the Geoffrey Marshall Mentoring Award from the Northeastern Association of Graduate Schools.

  • Buffalo without lake-effect snow?
    5/15/26

    UB researchers have uncovered new evidence of a reverse snowbelt in which an Ice Age wind system pushed Great Lakes snowstorms west instead of east.

  • AI spots hidden security flaws in hundreds of 5G smartphone models
    5/14/26

    The UB-led research prompts fixes from MediaTek and Qualcomm, and leads to work with Apple and Google.