Discover parasite biodiversity from home
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Millions of specimens are sitting in museums all over the world, but a lack of digital records make them hard to find and study. Help biologists discover parasite biodiversity.
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Recovery from upheaval can generate a new state
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A 50-foot fall out of a tree taught biology professor Nalini Nadkarni how recovering from life disruptions connects and changes us.
Read MoreChanging forests
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In a warming climate, tree communities, particularly in more arid regions, are becoming more drought tolerant primarily through the death of less hardy trees.
Read MoreVisualizing a virus
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A look at how a virus and its molecules interact with human cells.
Read MoreSecond graders turn recess into citizen science
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It turns out that Utah is one of the few places outside of Europe where one can find firebugs of the species needed for a particular kind of research.
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 MoreUnique brain cells linked to OCD and anxiety
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In a new study, U scientists discovered a new lineage of specialized brain cells, called Hoxb8-lineage microglia, and established a link between the lineage and OCD and anxiety in mice.
Read More‘Alien’ bird invasions
Research shows location is the biggest factor in successful “alien” bird invasions—which are also seen as negatively impacting native species.
Read MoreA forest ‘glow’
Researchers use fluorescence as a proxy to track photosynthesis in evergreen forests.
Read MoreHumans of the U: Teri Orr
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“The strangest thing I’ve ever done for science was milked a bat. Let me explain.”
Read More9 not-so-spooky bat facts
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With Halloween around the corner, Teri Orr, a postdoctoral researcher in the School of Biological Sciences who studies bats, dispels some myths that make people fear them.
Read MoreThe Wasatch Front: A living lab
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A new cross-campus partnership multiplies and unifies the U’s environmental observations of the Wasatch Front.
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