DNA barcoding is a movement to catalog all life on earth by a simple standardized genetic tag, similar to stores labeling products with unique barcodes. The effort promises foolproof food inspection, improved border security, and better defenses against disease-causing insects, among many other applications... More Read more from Wired
The first scholarly book to examine Garry Trudeau's Doonesbury comic strip notes that for all its cultural significance and political influence, the cartoon has been at times as misunderstood as another artist's New Yorker cover satirically depicting the Obamas as terrorists... More
A new study reveals part of the magic behind a diet rich in antioxidants, showing how artichokes, blueberries and pecans can hold at bay the leading cause of age-related blindness in developed countries... More Watch the story from KSL-TVRead more from the Salt Lake Tribune
While debate continues over the effects of post-traumatic stress disorder, a new study indicates traumatic events and PTSD symptoms may be followed in some cases by a size reduction in a part of the brain called the hippocampus... More Read more from Navy TimesWatch news coverage from KSLRead more from the Deseret News
Breastfeeding rates lowest in areas where need is greatest
While the CDC recently reported that more moms than ever give breastfeeding a try, a new national study shows most moms do not stick with it as long as they should... More Listen to a New York Times podcast with Professor ForsteRead more from The New York TimesRead more from the Deseret NewsRead more from the Chicago Sun-Times
A team of Brigham Young University student engineers designed an innovative and cost-effective apparatus that enables poor East African women to turn abundant coconuts into valuable coconut oil... More Read more in the Provo Daily HeraldRead more in the Deseret News
Brigham Young University engineering students and faculty used their foreign language skills to lead collaborators from 20 universities in nine countries in designing and constructing a Formula One race car that was shipped to sponsor General Motors in July... More Read more in the Provo Daily HeraldRead more in the Deseret News
Family dinnertime is known to be good for children, and now research shows the family dinner hour can recharge employees and wipe away the strain of working long hours... More Read more from The Wall Street JournalRead more from U.S. News & World ReportRead more from Slate magazine
A Brigham Young University researcher is twisting, bending and compressing human spines to develop better spare parts for the aching backs of millions of baby boomers... More Read more from the Deseret News
A new study shows counties can boost voters’ trust in elections by tapping local businesses, unions and schools to recruit poll workers – suggesting a need for investment in the human side of election administration... More Read the story from the Deseret NewsRead a Deseret News editorial based on the studyListen on KSL RadioRead more in the Provo Daily Herald
Number of overweight characters in shows also mirrors U.S. demographics
With Miley Cyrus headlining the Stadium of Fire this weekend, parents have likely been trying to catch a few episodes of her hit TV show, Hannah Montana, in hopes of doing a little research... More Read more in the Deseret NewsRead more on Canada.comRead more in the Daily HeraldRead more and listen to a radio clip on KSLRead more from The Salt Lake Tribune
The 2008 Summer Olympics and the booming Chinese economy have created a frantic pace of construction in China. That provided a perfect laboratory for 18 Brigham Young University civil engineering students earlier this month to study megastructures – super-tall skyscrapers, extra-long bridges and giant arenas... More
New research by a BYU historian shows that Italian immigrants in Utah and across America became more “Italian” after leaving their homeland... More
Functions as a toy, a power source and a science lesson
Most children in Essam, Ghana, had never seen a merry-go-round until a Brigham Young University-led team arrived to install the curious device in their village. For more than 200 children, the installation day was memorable not only because they took a new toy for a joyous, dizzy spin — or two, or three — but also because, for the first time, they lit up their school with kid power... More Watch a video from the Ghana school (long)Watch a video from the Ghana school (short)Watch a slideshow of the merry-go-round installationSee coverage by KSL TVSee coverage by KTVXRead more in the Deseret NewsRead more in the Daily Herald
For less than half the cost of a tank of gas, a new book by a Brigham Young University professor tours the golden age of family vacations in a nostalgic drive down memory lane... More Read The Washington Post's reviewListen to an interview with NPR's "On Point"Read The Wall Street Journal's review Read more from USA TodayRead more from NewsweekRead more from the Deseret NewsRead Prof. Rugh's take on "staycations" in The New York TimesListen to a discussion on RadioWestListen to the story from KSL NewsRadioRead an excerpt from the book
Win marks first time a United States team has claimed the top prize
After only the second year competing, the Brigham Young University Ad Lab has won the international finals of the L'Oreal Brandstorm competition... More Read more from The Salt Lake TribuneRead more from The Daily HeraldRead more from The Deseret NewsRead more from KSL
Thank goodness it’s Thursday... More Read Dr. Facer's comments in USA TodayListen to coverage from NPRSee Professor Facer on CBS NewsRead more from The Salt Lake TribuneRead more from the Provo Daily HeraldWatch a clip from Fox 13Listen to the story from KSL NewsRadio
Thirty-seven miles apart, twin stars orbit each other on a high-speed collision course. In a matter of milliseconds, the stars collide in spectacular fashion, spewing out radiation and forming an object so massive it collapses under its own weight and becomes a black hole... More Watch a video simulation of neutron stars collidingRead more from the Salt Lake Tribune
When Brett Alldredge submitted a research paper to a scholarly medical journal last year, the Brigham Young University neuroscience major was competing for space with university and medical school professors from around the world... More Read more from the Deseret News
Scientists have broken inside a cell long suspected of harboring HIV during drug treatment and determined it is indeed a reservoir of the virus in humans, where it remains highly infectious... More Read more from the Washington PostListen to a podcast from a BBC Radio science programWatch the story from KSL TVRead more from the front page of the Deseret NewsRead more from POZ, a publication for the National Association of People with AIDs
Paleontologists have long been perplexed by dinosaur fossils with missing pieces – sets of teeth without a jaw bone, bones that are pitted and grooved, even bones that are half gone. Now a Brigham Young University study identifies a culprit: ancient insects that munched on dinosaur bones... More Read more from the Discovery Channel web siteWatch the story from KSL TVRead more from the Salt Lake TribuneRead more from ScienceNOW Daily NewsRead more from Discovery's blog "Born Animal"Read more from the Provo Daily HeraldRead more from the Deseret News
Two Brigham Young University seniors graduating Thursday will be using prestigious post-graduate fellowships worth up to $121,500 each to pursue doctorates at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology... More Read more in the Deseret News
What: Industrial design students will present 10 prototypes of motorized power chairs to Pride Mobility. Earlier this year, the mobility manufacturing company gave the BYU class six of the chairs, and the students have worked for three months to re-design the chairs from the ground up. Their presentation will include:
Students to be honored April 18 in Las Vegas
The BYU Daily News, Brigham Young University's student news broadcast, has been named the best student TV newscast in the nation by the Broadcast Education Association. BYU's team will be honored Friday at the Annual BEA Festival of Arts Awards Ceremony in Las Vegas... More See video of the student broadcast
Team will travel to Paris in June for the international competition
The Brigham Young University Ad Lab has won the national finals of the L'Oreal Brandstorm competition for the second year in a row... More Read more in the Deseret NewsRead more in the Salt Lake Tribune
Brigham Young University undergraduate engineers demonstrated a portable workstation that creates custom insoles for shoes in less than 30 minutes on Tuesday. The team, sponsored by a Utah entrepreneur, was assigned to take a process that currently requires days and reduce it to minutes, with the potential for their invention to be an option for podiatrists' offices, athletic footwear stores or even ski outfitters... More Watch the story on KUTVSalt Lake TribuneDeseret Morning NewsProvo Daily Herald
Current educational efforts are not doing enough to promote a breadth of literacy among young people, according to a Brigham Young University study featured in this month's edition of the Harvard Educational Review... More
New BYU Center for Animation announced
The president of Pixar lauded Brigham Young University's animation program after he delivered a speech at the university Thursday... More See a preview of the animationRead more in the Salt Lake TribuneSee the story on KSLRead more in the Deseret Morning NewsRead more in the Provo Daily Herald
Also found spray residue actually attracts bears
Hikers and campers venturing into bear country this spring may be safer armed with 8-ounce cans of bear pepper spray than with guns, according to a new study led by a Brigham Young University bear biologist... More Read more from the New York TimesRead more from the front page of the Salt Lake TribuneSee the story on KSL TVRead more from Popular ScienceRead more from the Deseret Morning News
A portable device that can detect a chemical attack has been licensed from Brigham Young University to a Utah-based company working in support of the U.S. Department of Defense... More Watch the story from KSL-TVRead more from the Deseret Morning NewsSee more coverage from ABC4Read more from the Provo Daily HeraldRead more from the Salt Lake Tribune
New research shows that happily married adults have lower blood pressure than singles with supportive social networks, suggesting marriage may literally be a matter of the heart... More Read more from The New York TimesRead more from the Washington Post via the Associated PressRead more from U.S. News & World ReportRead more from Canada's Globe and MailRead more from the Provo Daily HeraldRead more from the Deseret Morning NewsRead more from the Salt Lake TribuneRead more from MedPage TodayRead more from WebMDRead more from Reuters
In most cases, traditional MRI scans of people who sustain a concussion look like normal, healthy brains – something that puzzles the medical profession... More Watch news coverage from KSLRead about it in the Deseret Morning NewsRead about an award to Dr. Bigler in the Honolulu Star Bulletin
Everyone knows that exercise improves endurance - now Brigham Young University scientists have discovered one reason why, pinpointing the enzyme that kickstarts the process. The finding will be important to future efforts to enhance the beneficial effects of exercise, and to possibly extend those benefits to people suffering from ailments such as diabetes and heart disease... More Watch the report from KSLRead more from the Deseret Morning NewsRead more from the Provo Daily HeraldWatch the story on MSNBC
Growing up in a town of 234 people in rural Idaho, Tara Westover barely considered attending college, let alone envisioned that one day she would be headed to the University of Cambridge for postgraduate studies with a prestigious scholarship worth more than $37,000. .. More
Hear Lloyd Newell, voice of the Mormon Tabernacle Choir's weekly broadcast, tell the story. .. More Read more from the Salt Lake TribuneListen to the report from KSL NewsRadioRead more from the LDS Church News