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Doubling Down on Detox

As creosote spread across the American Southwest 20,000 years ago, natural selection favored changes that led to duplicating genes that produce an abundance of detox enzymes. Gene duplication is likely the first step that enables animals to rapidly...
16-Jan-2025 7:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

Pacific Islander teens assert identity through language

A first-of-its-kind study found subtle, but distinct vowel pronunciations in Pacific Islanders attending more diverse schools in Utah compared to students in a predominately white high school, confirming the theory that groups to differentiate along...
16-Jan-2025 3:20 PM EST Add to Favorites

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‘Brand new physics’ for next generation spintronics

Pioneering researchers of self-generated spin torques have discovered a new one, anomalous Hall torque, that completes a triad of torques likely present in all conductive spintronic materials. Dubbed the Universal Hall Torques, the triad have unique...
16-Jan-2025 1:15 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Coyote Numbers Are Often Higher in Areas Where They Are Hunted

Coyote numbers are often higher in areas where they are hunted, according to new research from University of Utah. These counterintuitive findings are based on images from hundreds of trap cameras deployed in nationwide campaign to document wildlife.
10-Jan-2025 8:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

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U.S. Suffers From Low Social Mobility. Is Sprawl Partly to Blame?

Using Census data, University of Utah researchers untangle interplay between urban development patterns and socioeconomic outcomes, revealing non-affluent people who grow up in high-sprawl neighborhoods has less earning potential that those who grow...
3-Jan-2025 8:10 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Does Coffee Prevent Head and Neck Cancer?

Meta-analysis of past studies by University of Utah researchers calculates reduced risk of certain cancers for coffee and tea drinkers.
30-Dec-2024 4:35 PM EST Add to Favorites

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How Loss of Urban Trees Affects Education Outcomes

University of Utah economists looked at test scores and school attendance for Chicago-area kids before and after a bug infestation wiped out the city's ash trees. Education outcomes for low-income students went down, highlighting how the impacts of...
17-Dec-2024 10:00 PM EST Add to Favorites

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Is Ozone Pollution Harming Unborn Children?

Ozone pollution is getting worse as the climate warms. Now interdisciplinary research from the University of Utah documents compelling link between prenatal exposures on Utah's Wasatch Front and increased risk of intellectual disability.
11-Dec-2024 5:45 PM EST Add to Favorites


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