U ecosystems ecologist Jennifer Follstad Shah explains her new research illustrating how human impacts affect decomposition of plant material in streams and what’s at stake for the environment.
Read More“Once-in-a-career kind of finding”—the discovery is the best candidate for intermediate-mass black holes that astronomers have long believed to exist but have never found.
Read MoreNew research demonstrates particulate pollution arising from the dry lakebed is harder on lower-income neighborhoods, highlighting another benefit of restoring GSL’s water levels.
Read MoreMary Fairbanks was among undergraduates in U biologist Martin Horvath’s lab whose recent research explores DNA repair systems of microbes that inhabit oxygen-free environments on the seafloor.
Read MoreA U Environmental Engineering professor is at the forefront of new nanobubble technology.
Read MoreThe Natural History Museum of Utah announced Lokiceratops rangiformis, the largest and most ornate horned dino ever found. Its distinctive horn pattern inspired its name, “Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou.”
Read MoreAs animals learn to distinguish between differently timed events, the pattern of time cell activity changes to represent each pattern of events differently.
Read MoreUsing seismic data to measure changes in solid core’s motion, geologists discover it now turns more slowly relative to surface of Earth.
Read MoreTalia Karasov’s lab is trying to unlock the mystery of how bacteria harness viruses to wipe out the competition.
Read MoreUtah materials scientists develop a fluorescent compound, called U-1, that lights up as it binds with PFAS.
Read MoreWatch Kevin Davenport break down the physics that allows vert skaters to huck themselves into the stratosphere—and learn why he calls Tony Hawk an intuitive scientist.
Read MoreChadlin Ostrander uses thallium isotopes to track the rise and fall of free oxygen on Earth 2.5 billion years ago, the process that enabled life as we know it.
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