Fitness devices leverage consumer privacy to optimize health
When you use a wearable device to track your health or fitness, do you control your sensitive information? Or is the technology actually using you? Despite being a Certified Information Privacy...
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Wearable tech helps concussion patients
Wearable devices can track your sleep, your heartrate and your exercise. Beyond their basic use, these gadgets can also help patients better rehabilitate after concussion, also known as a mild...
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Utah researchers put airborne viral transmission risks under the microscope
See the original post from the College of Engineering here. As the COVID pandemic began to unfold in late 2019, researchers around the world scrambled to learn as much as possible about the novel virus...
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A Utah fossil’s journey from evidence locker to Harvard
Find the original story at the Natural History Museum of Utah’s blog. The 500-million-year-old fossil doesn’t stick out in Carrie Levitt-Bussian’s memory. Why would it? It looks like an unassuming,...
View ArticleWhere STEM meets literature
The College of Humanities’ new Great Books course has been a hit, according to faculty and students. “I’ve loved teaching in Great Books, a chance to hear other professors and actually talk across...
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Here’s how to forge metal on the moon
Challenged to devise a way to extract and forge metal on the moon, a team of University of Utah engineering students has won top honors in a NASA-sponsored competition with their proposal for refining...
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Caving for bones
Scientists from the Natural History Museum of Utah have taken a deep dive into the not-so-distant past thanks to a friendly tip from Utah’s caving community. In a paper published this week by the...
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Protecting kids from Utah’s worsening dust pollution
Nearly every day in every corner of Utah, young athletes train or compete in the outdoors, breathing in air that may be, at times, laden with fine particulate matter, dust, ozone, smoke, exhaust and...
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Isotopes: Science’s ‘common currency’
See the original post from the College of Science here. From tracking the routes of water throughout the West to determining the levels of atmospheric carbon during the Paleocene epoch, Gabriel Bowen’s...
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Telescope Array detects second highest-energy cosmic ray ever
In 1991, the University of Utah Fly’s Eye experiment detected the highest-energy cosmic ray ever observed. Later dubbed the Oh-My-God particle, the cosmic ray’s energy shocked astrophysicists. Nothing...
View ArticleLife Science Workforce Initiative kicks-off
Utah’s life sciences industry is booming—so much so that there’s a gap between the workers that bioscience companies need to grow and the college graduates to fill those jobs. A new partnership between...
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How microbes can combat climate change
While carbon dioxide gets much of the focus in the climate debate, methane, the main flammable component of natural gas, also drives planetary warming. Molecule for molecule, CH4’s heat-trapping...
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Geoscientists map changes in atmospheric CO2 over past 66 million years
Today atmospheric carbon dioxide is at its highest level in at least several million years thanks to widespread combustion of fossil fuels by humans over the past couple centuries. But where does 419...
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Lightning, camera, gamma ray!
In September 2021, an unprecedented thunderstorm blew across Utah’s West Desert. Lightning from this storm produced at least six gamma ray flashes that beamed downward to Earth’s surface and activated...
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Origin and disappearance of Coast Salish Woolly Dog
Researchers from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of Natural History led a new analysis that sheds light on the ancestry and genetics of woolly dogs, a now extinct breed of dog that was a fixture of...
View ArticleChristmas trees and climate change
Small choices can make a big impact this holiday season, starting with your Christmas tree! As Douglas firs and white pines appeared in lots around Salt Lake City, Natalie Vickers, a junior...
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The science behind snowflakes
Tim Garrett has devoted his scientific career to characterizing snowflakes, the protean particles of ice that form in clouds and dramatically change as they fall to Earth. Now the University of Utah...
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Utah engineers’ self-assembly techniques enable a new type of wafer-scale...
Reposted from the College of Engineering. At the nanoscale, the smallest structural differences can have a big impact. When materials and devices are measured in nanometers—billionths of a meter—the...
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Unraveling the mysteries of fog in complex terrain
Of the world’s various weather phenomena, fog is perhaps the most mysterious, forming and dissipating near the ground with fluctuations in air temperature and humidity interacting with the terrain...
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Nematode proteins shed light on infertility
We have two copies of each chromosome in every cell in our bodies except in our reproductive cells. Sperm and egg cells contain a single copy of each chromosome with a unique mix of genes from our...
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