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Want students more engaged in class? Let them sample tiny creatures living on them

By Bekah Peterson
April 10, 2018
A group of BYU professors has found that giving students access to their personal biological data has a profound impact on their learning experience.

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Newly minted Gates Scholar is 5th BYU student to receive rare honor

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
February 22, 2018
Anne Thomas is only the fifth BYU student to earn the all-expenses-paid fellowship since Bill and Melinda Gates started the Gates Cambridge Scholarship program in 2000.

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Intellect

Melting ice is forcing polar bears to swim more; the cost is high

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
January 30, 2018
New research by BYU biologist Blaine Griffen finds the increase in swimming could permanently affect polar bear populations, leading to smaller bears, reduced reproduction rates and even increased risk of death for the bears.

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Intellect

BYU researchers identify gene variation that protects against Alzheimer’s disease

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 29, 2017
BYU biologists have discovered a rare genetic variant that helps people who should get Alzheimer's remain healthy.

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Intellect

BYU neuroscientists identify how brain cells in adolescent mice are modified by marijuana

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 19, 2017
A newly published study by BYU researchers details how marijuana affects an adolescent brain’s reward center, at the cellular level.

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Intellect

Study shows stress could be just as unhealthy as junk food

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
October 15, 2017
We all know that a poor diet is unhealthy, but a new BYU study finds that stress may just as harmful to our bodies as a really bad diet.

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Intellect

Surviving earth’s extremes: BYU research in the mountains of Antarctica

Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 13, 2016
BYU biologist Byron Adams has spent many bone-chilling months in Antarctica digging up creatures like tardigrades, nematodes and rotifers to find out how they survived the ice age. His latest work took him to the top of an Antarctic glacier.

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Intellect

Beetles are coming to eat all our trees. Their eyes may be the key to stopping them

June 29, 2016
The Emerald Ash Borer is eating its way across America. Next stop? Utah. But not if BYU biologists can do something about it.

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Intellect

This desert plant defies gravity by collecting water upside-down with tiny leaf hairs

June 05, 2016
Syntrichia caninervis (aka seriously awesome desert moss) uses tiny hair-like structures on its leaves to absorb water from the atmosphere until droplets form and flow to the leaf. And sometimes it does it upside-down.

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Intellect

Nature's fireworks show: glowing fireflies lighting up Utah

June 16, 2013
Thousands of pyrotechnic, flashing fireflies are making a rare appearance in Utah this summer, evidence that these bioluminescent insects may be establishing larger populations in the west, according to Brigham Young University researchers.

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