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Dinosaur bones reveal ancient bug bites

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

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Two graduating seniors taking $100K-plus fellowships to MIT

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


BYU students to present redesigned power chairs Monday

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:

  • 8-inch scale models of chairs that target specific abilities, such as:
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BYU student broadcast team named top student newscast

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

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BYU Ad Lab wins national L'Oreal Brandstorm Competition

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

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BYU student engineers’ invention to give customers ‘happy feet’ in 30 minutes or less

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

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Harvard journal highlights BYU prof’s proposal for improving literacy education

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


Pixar president praises BYU animation program at premiere of latest short film

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

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BYU study shows bear pepper spray a viable alternative to guns for deterring bears

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

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Portable device that detects chemical attacks licensed from BYU to Utah company

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

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BYU – Baylor research team captures first images of post-concussion brain swelling

In most cases, traditional MRI scans of people who sustain a concussion look like normal, healthy brains – something that puzzles the medical profession... More

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BYU researchers identify key cellular signal that builds endurance in muscles

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

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Third BYU student in 4 years wins prestigious Gates Scholarship

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



Alternative energy option presented at meeting of world’s largest science society

A Brigham Young University professor widely recognized for his research into the process of turning coal into gas told an audience at the annual meeting of the world's largest scientific society that the technology may, for the first time, be financially compelling, thanks to concerns about global warming... More

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New book links Lincoln’s and Jefferson’s presidential leadership to religious ideals

This President’s Day, a book by a Brigham Young University political scientist reveals that Thomas Jefferson and Abraham Lincoln relied on religious morals to guide their political careers... More

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Research shows parents still influence their college kids

New research from Brigham Young University shows that parents influence their child’s likelihood of involvement with drugs, alcohol and risky sexual activity even after their child leaves for college... More

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Black family vacations in the 1950s: An untold story

While the fight against segregation on public buses remains a civil rights symbol, a Brigham Young University historian shows how the struggles of black families vacationing by car contributed to the push for equal access to public accommodations... More

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BYU scientist leads discovery of mountains on Saturn’s largest moon

By analyzing images from NASA’s Cassini Radar instrument, a Brigham Young University professor helped discover and analyze mountains on Saturn’s largest moon, additional evidence that it has some of the most earthlike processes of any celestial body in the solar system... More

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Some healthy resolutions stick, BYU study shows

Not all resolutions to exercise and eat healthy fade away, according to a new study by a Brigham Young University health statistician... More

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BYU media tip: Statistical sleuthing pinpoints polluters

Findings: A Brigham Young University statistics professor has improved the ability to track air pollution to its source. Professor William Christensen’s method reduces the misclassification rate by up to 33 percent compared to existing approaches... More

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BYU research team’s special methods find ancient Maya marketplace

Coaxing answers from 1500-year-old clues hidden in soil clumps, BYU environmental scientists identified a marketplace in an ancient Maya city, calling into question archaeologists' widely held belief that people of the era relied on rulers to tax and re-distribute goods, rather than trading them with one another... More

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BYU-Michigan study: No Child Left Behind misses what parents want most for kids’ schooling

A new study co-authored by a Brigham Young University economist concludes the federal No Child Left Behind law – with its focus on boosting reading and math scores – misses what parents seek most for their children’s elementary school education: a satisfying experience... More

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BYU senior named one of the nation’s top industrial design students; fulfills father’s dream

Brigham Young University senior Spencer Nugent is about to complete a journey that took him from his native Bog Walk, Jamaica, to a national awards ceremony in San Francisco last month, to his graduation from BYU this December. In doing so he'll fulfill an audacious goal his father set more than three decades ago... More

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Nature and electronics meet: How to make a tiny wire and connect it to DNA

Using the structure of DNA as electrical circuitry in computer chips may shrink the costs of production in the field of nano-electronics... More


BYU study: Stock prices drop when protests make headlines

One Friday in April 2006, a group of Mohawk Indians blocked freight trains in southern Ontario as an act of protest over a centuries-old land dispute... More

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BYU study reveals statistical recipe for victory in the NBA

New research using professional basketball statistics shows the small forward is the make-or-break position in the NBA... More

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New traffic signals in Utah improve safety, BYU study shows

A specialized traffic signal new to Utah is making dangerous intersections safer, reports a BYU study in the new issue of the Journal of Transportation Engineering. .. More


When customers attack – study tells how to pacify dissatisfied clients

When a restaurant goofs up a customer's order, sometimes saying sorry is the wrong solution. According to a study in the top-tier Journal of Marketing, the conventional one-size-fits-all approach for fixing customer service breakdowns fails because such tenuous interactions call for individualized treatment... More

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BYU computer scientist 'spills' handheld screen on table

The pursuit of smaller and smaller electronic gadgets leaves one glaring problem: trying to perform work on those tiny screens... More

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BYU study: Option-loaded CEOs strike out swinging for the fences

Is the ascendancy of the executive stock option at an end? Since options still amount to the largest component of ever-increasing CEO pay in the U.S. and are a growing factor in chiefs' compensation abroad, it may seem premature to write their epitaph, even though U.S. companies have moderated their use somewhat during the past few years... More

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