University of Utah researchers built "spintronic" transistors to align the "spins" of electrons for a record time in silicon chips at room temperature -- a step toward computers and other spintronic devices that are faster and use less energy than electronic counterparts.
Seismology, geophysics, civil engineering and nuclear power experts at the University of Utah are available for comment and questions about today’s earthquake in Japan and its potential aftermath.
The risk of deadly hantavirus outbreaks can be predicted using satellite images to monitor surges in vegetation that boost mouse populations, a University of Utah study says. The method also might forecast outbreaks of other rodent-borne illnesses.
For two months, researchers launched weather balloons, drove instrument-laden cars and flew a glider to study winter inversions that often trap dirty air in Salt Lake City and other urban basins worldwide. The field campaign – part of a study led by the University of Utah – ends Feb. 7.
University of Utah researchers developed a new concept in water treatment: an electrobiochemical reactor in which a low electrical voltage is applied to microbes to help them quickly and efficiently remove pollutants from mining, industrial and agricultural wastewater.
The University of Utah overtook MIT to become America’s No. 1 research institution when it comes to creating startup companies based on university technology, and it achieved the top ranking with a fraction of the research budget of other major universities.
University of Utah physicists stored data for 112 seconds in what may become the tiniest computer memory: “spins” in the atomic nuclei. Then they read the data electrically – a step toward using spin memory for faster conventional and superfast “quantum” computers.
Four years after the LouseBuster prototype made headlines when research showed the chemical-free, warm-air device wiped out head lice on children, a new study reveals that a revamped, government-cleared model is highly effective.
The UofU library provides an audio journey to the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--a unique preserve of American wilderness--in commemoration of its 50th anniversary.
University of Utah computer scientists developed software that quickly edits huge photographs. Until now, it took hours to process these “gigapixel” images. The new software needs only seconds to produce preview images useful to doctors, intelligence analysts, photographers, engineers and others.
The run-up to the midterm elections has produced many surprises, even in the state of Utah. Political experts at the U of U are available to shed light on a range of issues involving races in the state, the West and across the country.
If all goes well during a demonstration project in China, University of Utah microbubble technology may boost many environmental cleanups, including removing oil byproducts from water, organics and heavy metals from industrial sites and harmful algae from lakes.
If drivers yak on cell phones and don’t hear instructions to turn left or right, they still can get directions from devices that are mounted on the steering wheel and pull the driver’s fingertips left or right, a University of Utah study found.
New discoveries in southern Utah "dinosaur boneyard" reveal giant horned plant-eaters, one with 15 horns, showing different species in same groupings existed at the same time.
In an early step toward letting severely paralyzed people speak with their thoughts, University of Utah researchers translated brain signals into words using two grids of 16 microelectrodes implanted beneath the skull but atop the brain.
A paycheck brings a familiar sense of freedom, albeit one that dwindles in lockstep with the balance in one's checking account. But, it’s not the checking account size that influences consumer behavior; rather, it’s the time that has elapsed since payday.
A magnitude-8.1 earthquake and tsunami that killed 192 people last year in Samoa, American Samoa and Tonga actually was a triple whammy: The 8.1 “great earthquake” concealed and triggered two magnitude-7.8 quakes.
U of U study on walkability shows that planning matters, but also that students’ and parents’ views of safety can differ and influence transportation choices
Wielding two claws, a motor and a swinging tail, a small robot scrambles up a carpeted, 8-foot wall in just over 15 seconds – the first such robot designed to climb efficiently and move like human rock climbers or apes swinging through trees.
In tough times, many companies slash staff and turn to outsourcing, yet that may doom their products; in good times, as with Toyota, losing control over key components can contribute to failure, says Lyda Bigelow, a University of Utah business-strategy professor.
To many big companies, you aren’t just a customer, but are described by multiple “dimensions” of information within a computer database. Now, a University of Utah computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster “data mining,” or extracting and analyzing massive amounts of such data.
University of Utah researchers are using eye-tracking technology to pioneer a promising alternative to the polygraph for lie detection. The university recently licensed the technology to Credibility Assessment Technologies, of Park City.
Female zebra finches make one-note, low-pitch calls. Males sing over a wide range of frequencies. University of Utah scientists discovered how: The males’ stronger vocal muscles, not the pressure of air flowing through their lungs, lets them vary their pitch.
A purported human ancestor that was dubbed Science magazine’s 2009 Breakthrough of the Year is under fire from scientists who say there is scant evidence for claims that there were dense woods at the African site where the creature lived 4.4 million years ago.
Vehicle use affects everything from the environment to obesity. A study of commuter's travel choices by a U of U planner aims to make transportation decisions easier for those charged with designing cities that use less carbon in the future.
A fission reaction in a nuclear reactor? There’s an “app” for that! An iPhone “application” or software developed at the University of Utah can display simulations of a nuclear reactor’s core on an iPod, iPhone or iPad.
Knocking genes out of action allows researchers to learn what genes do. University of Utah biologists pioneered the field. Mario Capecchi won a Nobel Prize for knockout mice. Kent Golic crippled fruit fly genes. Now, Erik Jorgensen and colleagues have deleted genes in nematode worms.
A University of Utah researcher helped discover how a “wimpy” protein motor gains the strength necessary to move nerve cells and components inside them. The findings provide clues to a rare brain disorder that often kills babies within months of birth.
The first weekend in May marks urbanist Jane Jacob's legacy across the country with neighbors walking together to discover what makes their cities—from Boston to Los Angeles—vibrant and livable.
Teens and “tweens” with type 1 diabetes have more trouble sticking to their treatment plan – thus raising their risk of eye, kidney and heart disease – if their parents become lax about monitoring the child’s treatment, or if the mother-child relationship is poor.
A new study from University of Utah psychologists found a small group of people with an extraordinary ability to multitask: Unlike 97.5 percent of those studied, they can safely drive while chatting on a cell phone.
Utah’s world-famous red rocks have yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur that lived 185 million years ago and may have been buried alive by a collapsing sand dune.
NPR’s Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, teamed up with University of Utah psychologist David Strayer -- an expert on how cell phones impair drivers -- to launch the Driver Distraction Center at cartalk.com/distraction.
U professor explores why scandals of this decade like Enron may happen — and how to prevent them from recurring.
University of Utah engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider area than otherwise possible, and with less fatigue.
Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly’s silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.
University of Utah scientists developed an easier way to predict snowfall amounts and density – fluffy powder or wet cement. The method has been adopted by the National Weather Service for use throughout Utah and could be adjusted for use anywhere.
The University of Utah now is ranked first in the country along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in creating new startup companies from research-based inventions.
Humans are among the few animals that step first on the heel when walking. A University of Utah study shows that compared with heel-first walking, it takes 53 percent more energy to walk on the balls of your feet, and 83 percent more energy to walk on your toes.
Two UofU faculty members offer their insights into the behavioral and operational questions involved in product recalls like that underway at Toyota.
Two faculty members at the University of Utah have over 35 years studying love, romance and relationships covering everyone from adolescents to couples in later life.
At times this winter, greater Salt Lake City has harbored the nation's most polluted air. Now, researchers from the University of Utah are leading a three-year, $1.3 million study to better understand winter weather “inversion” conditions associated with poor air quality.
Nicole Detling Miller knows honing the mental aspects of sport is a competetive advantage. Now as a "mental coach" she will be sharing those skills with US speedskaters at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
When University of Utah scientists discovered a new kind of laser generated by an electrically conducting polymer, no one knew how it worked. Now, researchers have found “random lasers” occur because of mirror-like cavities in the polymers. Such lasers may prove useful for diagnosing cancer.
University of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction through alligators' lungs, just as it does in birds. That suggests this breathing method may have helped dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate after Earth’s worst mass extinction.
University of Utah biologists found that finches – the birds Darwin studied – develop antibodies against two parasites that moved to the Galapagos Islands, suggesting the birds can fight the alien invaders.
The best view yet published of the Yellowstone supervolcano's plume shows it slants upward from at least 410 miles deep. Another study indicates the volcano's magma chamber is 20 percent larger than once thought.
Discovery of a new species of 213-million-year-old meat-eating dinosaur in New Mexico suggests the first dinosaurs wandered between parts of the Pangea supercontinent that later became North and South America, according to a team of researchers from the several institutions, including the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.
Trio of experts in global conflict, counter-terrorism and dispute resolution available for perspective on Afghanistan situation.
A University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions – the major cause of global warming – cannot be stabilized unless the world’s economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day.
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