Intellect

Considering a host of social pressures and stresses that adolescents experience, the addition of a relationship to the equation can have a negative impact, according to a study from BYU professor of family life Adam Rogers.

Unlikely solution comes from Ph.D. student who also moonlights as a standup comedian

Dr. Kay Jamison, clinical psychologist mental health advocate, delivered the BYU Forum address on Tuesday. Dr. Jamison shared personal experiences with mental illness and discussed the relationship between students and mood disorders like depression and bipolar disorder.

In BYU’s new Mixed Reality Lab, students are forging a new frontier of virtual and augmented reality. The lab becomes scattered with robots. Equipped with a headset and a controller, a player is tasked with saving the lab from an invasion. Their reality is mixed with augmented 3D technology.

"Developable mechanisms" are built into the surfaces of structures

The BYU marriage and family therapy program was recently named the No. 1 program of its kind for research productivity.

One of the biggest challenges to cancer therapy is that cancer cells adapt to their environment and become resistant to treatment. New research by BYU professor John Price and grad student Monique Speirs found a way to slow this adaptation process — technically called metabolic reprogramming — in one of the most difficult cancers to treat: pancreatic cancer.

Nitrogen pollution from human fertilizer and fossil fuels affects two-thirds of freshwater bodies worldwide and causes billions of dollars of damage to fisheries and ecosystems annually. It triggers harmful algal blooms and dead zones where only worms and bacteria can survive.

Move over trust falls and ropes courses, turns out playing video games with coworkers is the real path to better performance at the office.

Matt Luhn, a story and branding consultant for Pixar, delivered the BYU forum address on Tuesday. He discussed how to craft and tell stories, whether those stories are for a movie or for any other outlet.

Less than one percent of submissions to the Sundance Film Festival gets accepted. This year alone, the committee selected a mere 112 pieces from more than 14,000 entries.

The Trump administration’s proposal to require pharmaceutical companies to publish drug prices in TV ads is unlikely to help control drug prices, according to a co-authored BYU study published Jan. 22 in JAMA Internal Medicine.

Project is funded by the U.S. Figure Skating Association

Heroes on packaging can make vice food seem less harmful to consumers

It’s a challenging proposition for anyone: Lie flat on your back, helmet covering half of your face, in a tight-quartered MRI capsule that would make even the non-claustrophobe jittery. Then try not to move for 45 minutes. For children and adolescents with autism and low verbal and cognitive performance (LVCP), that proposition has been nearly impossible without sedation — until now.

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It’s the political scientist’s often-asked chicken and egg: does a person’s political party or policy attitudes come first?

Trend shows U.S. on verge of epidemiologic transition