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Fire research from BYU creating better, faster models to predict how wildfires burn
September 04, 2019
New Department of Defense-sponsored research from BYU’s Fire Research Lab is getting into the microscopic details of how fast wildfires burn.
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BYU home to nation's best chemical engineering student
By Jayne Edwards
December 11, 2018
BYU professor also wins prestigious chemical engineering honor
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BYU researchers develop a new wildfire smoke emissions model
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
August 22, 2018
Hazy, smoke-filled skies can have serious health effects
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Water Droplets
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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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BYU researchers speeding up process of making vaccines
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
November 17, 2015
Researchers at BYU have devised a system to speed up the process of making life-saving vaccines for new viruses.

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BYU's mentoring factory: Getting undergraduates into research
By Ashley Lindenau
October 14, 2015
Giving undergraduate students research opportunities is a priority at BYU. Alonzo Cook takes that charge very seriously. Cook, a chemical engineering professor, has 86 undergraduate students working in his lab.

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BYU technology tackles climate change by freezing carbon
Todd Hollingshead
By Todd Hollingshead
September 27, 2015
This August, President Obama announced an ambitious plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030. BYU professor Larry Baxter is developing a technology that can actually do it.

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