PIG-SNOUTED TURTLE DISCOVERED
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A 76-million-year-old extinct species of a pig-snouted turtle unearthed in Utah is one of the most complete skeletons of a turtle from the age of dinosaurs.
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U GEOSPATIAL SCIENCES GET FEDERAL RECOGNITION
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Branches of the Defense and Interior departments have designated the U’s Department of Geography as a Center of Academic Excellence in Geospatial Sciences, which involves mapping, measuring and simulating geographic locations.
Read MoreFROM BREAD TO BULB
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Two U researchers have found a way to create LEDs from tortillas and soda.
Read MoreSCIENCE DAY AT THE U
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Hundreds of high school students from Utah and neighboring states to learn about science at the 27th annual Science Day at the U.
Read MoreWHY ELEPHANTS RARELY GET CANCER
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A study led by researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and Arizona State University might have found the answer.
Read MorePRIZES ROLL IN FOR ‘FLASH-AND FREEZE’ POSTDOC
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Shigeki Watanabe, a postdoctoral fellow in biology, receives two major prizes for neuroscience and cell biology for developing a “flash-and-freeze” method of watching nerve cells in action.
Read MoreCHINA TO FETE U CHEMIST
U organic chemist Peter Stang receiving the 2015 China’s Friendship Award.
Read MoreNEW AWARD FOR OLD HAND AT YELLOWSTONE
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After spending decades tromping around Yellowstone and Grand Teton national parks to study their volcanic and seismic hazards, awards keep pouring in for Bob Smith, a research and emeritus professor of geology and geophysics.
Read MoreWAYNE’S WORLD – OF SCIENCE
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Wayne Potts studies the genetics of coevolution, but his work reaches beyond the conventional boundaries of the field.
Read MoreDINO-MITE MYSTERY SOLVED
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A remarkably detailed picture of the climate and ecology during the Triassic Period explains why dinosaurs failed to establish dominance near the equator for 30 million years.
Read MoreCATCHING SOME RAYS
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Physicists plan to expand Telescope Array cosmic ray observatory, seeking the source of the most energetic particles in the universe.
Read MoreLOOK AT THOSE GENES
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Genomics England announced it will be using technology co-developed with the U to interpret the DNA of Britons as part of the 100,000 Genomes Project.
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