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When football helmets collide, they produce an unmistakable sound. College student Brandon McChristian hopes his research of those sound waves produces a better understanding of the forces involved in those collisions and, perhaps one day, inexpensive sensing methods for a safer game.

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For the 34th consecutive year, The University of Alabama’s Office of Media Relations offers predictions from faculty experts for the coming year. See our list of the Top 15 “Educated Guesses” for 2015.

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Dr. Edward Sazonov, an associate professor of electrical and computer engineering at The University of Alabama, hopes to change that through development of a sensor worn around the ear that would automatically track diet, giving medical professionals and consumers accurate information that can be missed with self-reporting.

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College students’ views on evolution are shaped significantly more by religiosity than education, according to a survey of Southern students.

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The Tuscaloosa Longitudinal Community Curriculum, or TLC2, is a program through The University of Alabama's College of Community Health Sciences that covers medical students’ third-year curriculum. Rather than the traditional rotation schedule, which consists of seven eight-week rotations through various the specialties, through TLC2 students spend most of their third-year working with a community physician and following patients throughout the diagnosis or disease.

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By using liquid salts during formation instead of harsh chemicals, fibers that conduct electricity can be strengthened, according to a patent issued to a team of researchers at The University of Alabama.

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A type of lipid that naturally declines in the aging brain impacts – within laboratory models used to study Parkinson’s disease – a protein associated with the disease, according to a study co-authored by researchers in Louisiana and Alabama.

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College students are typically more sleep deprived than the rest of us and often ignore the health benefits of adequate slumber, said a researcher who studies the topic.

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The U.S. Department of Energy selected a start-up company for an approximate $1.5 million award to refine an alternative material to potentially extract uranium from the ocean.

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Less than a year after patenting a process that could improve stripping greenhouse gasses from industrial emissions, a University of Alabama professor was recently granted another patent with a different solvent to accomplish the same goal.

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Dr. Jeff Gray, professor of computer science at The University of Alabama, will lead a free, online course this summer to train more than 700 high-school teachers in a new computer-science course and College Board AP exam.

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The National Science Foundation selected a University of Alabama mechanical engineering professor for a CAREER Award for his research into a robotic prosthesis that could help amputees walk better.

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Light-weight garage doors can be the weak link to allowing high winds and pressure changes from a tornado into a home that can lead to the removal of the roof and collapsed walls.

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Dr. Edward O. Wilson, one of the most highly decorated scientists in the world and a University of Alabama alumnus, has made two major gifts to his alma mater with an approximate value totaling $500,000.

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Overreliance on genetic-centered approaches in predicting, diagnosing and treating disease will lead to few future scientific breakthroughs, cautioned a researcher who co-authored an article advocating for a greater emphasis on the body’s metabolites in understanding illnesses.

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A University of Alabama veteran anti-smoking strategist argues that efforts to reduce smoking have become more symbol than substance in a new documentary recently released online.