Brown Lawns Popular In Blanding
Blanding has a population of more than 3,500 people with a history of conserving water that they are proud of, according to Jeremy Redd, the city manager of Blanding.“People take a lot of pride in the...
View ArticleA Drug Might Heal Spinal Injuries By Sparking Nerve Growth
A scientist who chose to ignore the mainstream nearly 30 years ago has found a new way to regenerate nerves in the spinal cord, at least in animals. A drug that Jerry Silver, a professor of...
View ArticleNASA's Orion To Blast Off, Utah Parts On Board
Early Thursday morning, NASA will test fly a new vehicle designed to carry astronauts into space—for the first time since 1981.Utah’s NASA ambassador Patrick Wiggins said the Orion spacecraft will...
View ArticlePaleontologist Excavates Vandalized Dinosaur Fossil
Three months after a dinosaur fossil was found vandalized in Dinosaur National Monument, the mineralized bone has been excavated and taken to Brigham Young University for repair. On Tuesday, BYU...
View ArticleOrion Mission A Delayed Success
"Five, four, three, two, one, and liftoff, at dawn! The dawn of Orion and a new era of American space exploration,” NASA commentators exclaimed Friday morning at the inaugural launch of the Orion...
View ArticleOh, Snap! NASA Promises Best Photo Yet Of Faraway Pluto
Humanity has snapped detailed portraits of planets and moons throughout our solar system. But there's one missing from the album: Pluto.Although Pluto was discovered in 1930, it has remained stubbornly...
View ArticleInside Doctor Who: Scientist Talks Photographing Snowflakes
In the 2010 Doctor Who Christmas Special, the Doctor, a time traveling alien with a special place in his heart for humanity and the downtrodden, must convince a Scrooge-like character to save a...
View ArticleStudy: Young Utahns Harmed By Incarceration
A newly released study from the Justice Policy Institute shows that Utah spends over $78,000 per year to incarcerate one young adult. According to Marc Schindler, Executive Director of the Washington,...
View ArticleScientists Often Skip A Simple Test That Could Verify Their Work
There's a simple test that scientists could use to make sure the cells they're studying in the lab are what they think they are. But most of the time, academic scientists don't bother.That omission is...
View ArticleMaking The Human Condition Computable
For centuries, the central challenge in health care was ignorance. There simply wasn't enough information to know what was making a person sick, or what to do to cure them.Now, health care is being...
View ArticleDinosaurs And Autism On Friday's Access Utah
Paleontologist Kenneth Carpenter is the museum director of the Utah State University Eastern Prehistoric Museum and author or co-author of several books on dinosaurs and Mesozoic life. His main...
View ArticleGeminid Meteor Showers Light Up Both Hemispheres
The annual Geminid meteor shower dazzled Earthlings around the world late Saturday and early Sunday.Pieces of gravel and dust from a "rock comet" called 3200 Phaethon shot across the sky and lit up...
View ArticleMore Than Just Cute, Sea Otters Are Superheroes Of The Marsh
On the roof of the Monterey Bay Aquarium in Monterey, Calif., in a large plastic tank, a sea otter mother named Abby floats with her adopted pup, known as 671.For up to nine months, Abby will raise her...
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Why Some Scientific Collaborations Are More Beneficial Than Others
Copyright 2014 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.Transcript RENEE MONTAGNE, HOST: Science is all about collaborations. But there is new evidence that some collaborations may be more...
View ArticleUtah's First Wild-Hatched California Condor Dies
In a Wednesday press release, program biologists from The Peregrine Fund and Zion National Park announced Utah’s first wild-hatched California condor since the reintroduction of the bird to California...
View Article7 Miles Beneath The Sea's Surface: Who Goes There?
A ship full of marine scientists is floating over the deepest part of the world: the Pacific Ocean's Mariana Trench.
View ArticleEarthquakes Felt Near Nephi Over The Weekend
Small earthquakes were reported in Juab County over the weekend. The U.S. Geological Survey says two small earthquakes larger than 3.0 magnitude hit central Utah late Sunday night about eight miles...
View ArticleUtah-Developed Technology Helps Doctors Detect Flu Faster
This year’s flu has been hitting the nation especially hard, and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention has listed the virus’ hold on Utah as widespread. In Utah County alone there have been...
View ArticleLong-Lost European Spacecraft Spotted On Mars By NASA Probe
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View ArticleCampus Permaculture Project Gets Exported To Moab
On the Logan main campus, work is underway on a permaculture teaching garden, which will demonstrate alternatives for dealing with storm water in the city. A USU Professor is now doing the same thing...
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