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The Research Quest program is designed to improve students’ critical thinking skills using real-world science investigations with researchers.

Science is an idea that’s accessible to anyone, a process by which we observe, test and learn something new.

Black students and scientists have faced unfair and unjust barriers in science.

A new study questions the importance of meat-eating in shaping human evolution.

U engineers discover what makes a tree-killing fungus so hard to put down.

Loss of ancient grazers triggered a dramatic increase in fire activity across the world’s grasslands.

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A paleontologist and her team documented over 600 new fossil finds from the Age of Mammals, a record in the multi-decade Uinta Basin Project.

Research reveals that food products labeled with wild mushrooms mostly contained cultivated fungi and a few poisonous mushrooms.

A first-time paleontology volunteer used her keen intuition and some good old-fashioned beginner’s luck to find an impressive fossil skeleton.