Great Salt Lake meteorite lands in a new home
Four years after meteorite’s fiery arrival in Utah, its largest fragment now on permanent display in the U’s Department of Geology & Geophysics.
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Wildfires don’t just pollute the air, rain may turn its smoke into fertilizer
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Rain falling through wildfire smoke can deliver unusually large bursts of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium to ecosystems, and may be an increasingly significant—and largely overlooked—ecological consequence of fire.
Read MoreBringing it home: Utes Production Studio
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College of Humanities and Utah Athletics Collaborate to bring new sports production studio to campus.
Read MoreScientists identify mushroom behind ‘tiny people’ hallucinations
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DNA sequencing links independent reports of ‘Lilliputian’ hallucinations to a single mushroom species—one with no previously identified psychoactive compounds, suggesting the presence of a new hallucinogenic chemical.
Read MoreOptimizing software: Computing professor’s ‘egg’ downsizes programs to make them more nimble
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Research by U’s Pavel Panchekha highlights innovative ways to simplify making compilers, synthesizers and other software tools.
Read More‘The Elephant in the Desert’
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U’s Wilkes Center produces an interactive tool exploring the past and future of Utah data centers.
Read MoreUtah’s Redtail AI supercomputer ranks among world’s fastest, greenest
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The University of Utah’s new AI factory will expand access to advanced computing for researchers, students and industry across Utah
Read MoreU selected for elite national network of AI-driven ‘cloud laboratories’
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The Utah node will train students from K-12 to postdoc, via workshops, online bootcamps and interactive digital programming, with recruitment aimed at regional universities, community colleges and minority-serving institutions.
Read MoreAir pollution mixtures may pose hidden risks during pregnancy
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Using machine learning, U researchers found that repeated exposure to combinations of common air pollutants in early pregnancy was associated with nearly three-times greater odds of early preterm birth.
Read MoreAstronomers detect magnetic fingerprint of a cosmic explosion for the first time
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NSF VLA radio telescope reveals polarized light and a powerful magnetic environment of a gamma-ray burst afterglow, offering a window into the extreme physics driving powerful explosions in the universe.
Read MoreNASA’s Hubble discovers first of star cluster’s missing black holes
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The U-led team uncovered the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri, a surprisingly low-mass object in an unexpectedly wide orbit that challenges ideas about how black holes form.
Read MoreCaddisfly silk gene evolves quickly without losing adhesive power
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Bioengineer Russell Stewart is looking to aquatic bugs to create next-generation of biomedical adhesives.
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