U offers new scholarship to non-traditional students
March 19, 2015 – The University of Utah received a $25,000 grant from the Daniels Fund to provide two Boundless Opportunity scholarships to non-traditional students for the next two academic years. The...
View ArticleA stiff new layer in Earth’s mantle
March 23, 2015 – By crushing minerals between diamonds, a University of Utah study suggests the existence of an unknown layer inside Earth: part of the lower mantle where the rock gets three times...
View ArticleEarthlike ‘Star Wars’ Tatooines may be common
March 30, 2015 – Luke Skywalker’s home in “Star Wars” is the desert planet Tatooine, with twin sunsets because it orbits two stars. So far, only uninhabitable gas-giant planets have been identified...
View ArticleU pistol team wins four events at national college championships
March 26, 2015 – University of Utah students won two individual events, two team events and placed fourth overall at this year’s National Inter-Collegiate Pistol Championships at Fort Benning, Georgia....
View ArticleCalculating how the Pacific was settled
April 22, 2015 – Using statistics that describe how an infectious disease spreads, a University of Utah anthropologist analyzed different theories of how people first settled islands of the vast...
View ArticleNew tool to save salmon: isotope tracking
May 15, 2015 – Salmon carry a strontium chemical signature in their “ear bones” that lets scientists identify specific streams where the fish hatched and lived before they were caught at sea. The new...
View ArticleAncient El Niños triggered Baja bunny booms
June 4, 2015 – At times during the past 10,000 years, cottontails and hares reproduced like rabbits and their numbers surged when the El Niño weather pattern drenched the Pacific Coast with rain,...
View ArticleCosmic ray observatory to expand
June 15, 2015 – Physicists plan a $6.4 million expansion of the $25 million Telescope Array observatory in Utah so they can zero in on a “hotspot” that seems to be a source of the most powerful...
View ArticleDoves share pigeon gene for head crests
June 23, 2015 – The same gene that creates elaborate head crests in domestic rock pigeons also makes head and neck feathers grow up instead of down in domesticated doves to give them head crests,...
View Article4 million years at Africa’s salad bar
Aug. 3, 2015 – As grasses grew more common in Africa, most major mammal groups tried grazing on them at times during the past 4 million years, but some of the animals went extinct or switched back to...
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