Two labs at the University of Utah’s Department of Chemistry joined forces to improve imaging tools that may soon enable scientists to better observe signaling in functioning cells and other molecular-scale processes central to life.
As Utah’s Great Salt Lake shrinks, exposing more of its playa, concerns grow about the dust the dry lakebed emits. University of Utah scientists find sediments in the exposed lakebed show elevated 'oxidative potential,' indicating greater risk to human health.
In thousands of simulations, STRIDE produced much more accurate travel times than the standard slope-only models. STRIDE also chose to use established roads and trails to avoid patches of forest or dense vegetation. In contrast, the slope-only model sent rescuers through dense vegetation, dangerous scree fields and forested areas.
By combining the U’s innovation engine with EPIC’s extensive network, the partnership will catalyze growth for early-stage technology companies across various sectors, including software, health and life sciences and financial technology.
By analyzing foram shells recovered in drill cores, a study led by University of Utah geologists links rapid climate change that led to thermal maxima 50 million years ago to rising CO2 levels.
University of Utah researchers find ballot collection lowers barriers to voting for Naive Americans, while resulting in no documented cases of vote fraud. Yet many states are banning the practice.
University of Utah geophysicists find link between seismic waves called PKP precursors and anomalies in Earth's mantle that are associated with hotspots associated with volcanism on the surface.
Quick decisions are more likely influenced by initial biases, resulting in faulty conclusions, while decisions that take time are more likely the result in better information, according to new research led by applied mathematicians at the University of Utah.
University of Utah researchers discover potential treatments that target amyloid beta plaques on the brain that lead to dementia in patients with Alzheimer’s disease.
For the first time, scientists transformed existing optoelectronic devices into ones that can control electron spin at room temperature, without a ferromagnet or magnetic field. Researchers replaced the electrodes of store-bought LEDs with a patented spin filter made from hybrid organic-inorganic halide perovskite.
Indigenous people brought a native potato to southern Utah, adding to the list of culturally significant plant species that pre-contact cultures domesticated in the Southwestern U.S. Genetic analysis revealed Solanum jamesii had been collected, transported and traded throughout the Colorado Plateau.
Earth’s atmosphere holds an ocean of fresh water. Extracting some of that moisture is seen as a potential way to provide clean drinking water to billions of people globally who face chronic shortages. A prototype device developed by University of Utah engineers for the U.S. Army harvests drinking water from atmosphere, even in arid places.
Led by the University of Utah, a meta-analysis of existing research shows exposure to nature, even as little as 10 minutes, could benefit those with diagnosed mental illness.
University of Utah biologists discover that multiple species of Myrmelachista ants have independently evolved the same specialized relationship with understory trees of Neotropical rainforests.
Each year, Earth’s plants drop about 100 billion tons organic material--leaves, sticks, bark, pollen--much of it ending up in waterways where it decomposes, perpetuating a cycle that shuttles carbon back and forth between the environment and living things.
Newly identified fast-moving stars in the star cluster Omega Centauri provide solid evidence for a central black hole in the cluster. With at least 8,200 solar masses, that black hole is the best candidate for a class of black holes astronomers have long believed to exist: intermediate-mass black holes, formed in the early stages of galaxy evolution.
The Natural History Museum of Utah announced Lokiceratops rangiformis, the largest and most ornate horned dino ever found. Its distinctive horn pattern inspired its name, "Loki’s horned face that looks like a caribou."
Exposure to wind-blown dust from exposed playa of the Utah lake is worse in Hispanic neighborhoods, according to research from the University of Utah. Findings suggest restoring the lake could ease social inequities associated with air pollution.
Using seismic data to measure changes in the solid core's motion within the liquid outer core, geologists discover it now turns more slowly relative to surface of Earth.
University of Utah biologists are unlocking the mystery of how bacteria harness viruses to wipe out the competition. Answers could lead to the development of alternatives to broad-spectrum antibiotics.
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