TRAX air quality study expands
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A U air monitoring project, expanded to TRAX’s Blue Line, shows how smoke from last year’s fireworks drifted through the valley.
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Going super small to get super strong metals
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Experiments challenge long-held assumptions about the strength of metals.
Read MoreU research suggests public safety risks in bail reform
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Discussions of reforming the bail system often turn to the question of public safety. Would people out on bail commit crimes? The answer appears to be yes.
Read MorePolymers to the rescue! Saving cells from damaging ice
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New research by University of Utah chemists provides the foundation to design efficient polymers that can prevent the growth of ice that damages cells.
Read MoreWhy males pack a powerful punch
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Elk have antlers. Rams have horns. In the animal kingdom, males develop specialized weapons for competition when winning a fight is critical. Humans do too, according to new research.
Read MoreU economists tally societal cost of preterm birth
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In the United States, 1 in 10 babies is born preterm, or at a gestational age of less than 37 weeks. The causes of preterm birth are complicated but the effects are clear: Preterm birth has lasting consequences for the child and their family.
Read MoreU’s Ant Man names 57 species
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U entomologist Jack Longino has compiled more than 30 years of work into an ant guide, detailing 234 species of the ant genus Pheidole.
Read More‘I am multiracial’
According to new research from University of Utah psychologists Jasmine Norman and Jacqueline Chen, questions such as “What are you?” and other experiences of discrimination are related to mixed-race people’s identification as multiracial, particularly if that discrimination comes from monoracial people with whom they share heritage, or includes comments that a person’s appearance doesn’t match their background.
Read More‘Fire inversions’ lock smoke in valleys
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U researchers show why fire inversions happen and offer new air quality prediction tools.
Read MoreRodent gut bacteria
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Researchers in the U’s School of Biological Sciences report that the native gut microbiome can be preserved in captivity by continuing to feed the animals their native foods instead of an artificial diet.
Read MorePrenatal opioid exposure
A U study finds sparse data on how children fare after prenatal opioid exposure.
Read MoreUtah’s red rock metronome
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Seismic readings reveal Castleton Tower’s unseen vibrations.
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