Latest news from University of Utah on News en-us Copyright 2025 News 115 31 / /images/newswise-logo-rss.gif /articles/how-ancient-stone-kitchens-preserve-food-secrets/?sc=rsin /articles/how-ancient-stone-kitchens-preserve-food-secrets/?sc=rsin Tue, 25 Mar 2025 21:25:26 EST University of Utah anthropologists with the Natural History Museum of Utah uncover microscopic plant residues in bedrock metates, revealing insights into the diets and traditions of ancient Indigenous communities. University of Utah /articles/whose-air-quality-are-we-monitoring/?sc=rsin /articles/whose-air-quality-are-we-monitoring/?sc=rsin Tue, 18 Mar 2025 20:25:12 EST The EPA's network consistently failed to capture air quality in communities of color across six major pollutants. The monitors are the key data source driving decisions about pollution reduction, urban planning and public health initiatives. The data may misrepresent pollution concentrations, leaving marginalized groups at risk. University of Utah /articles/misha-lived-in-zoos-but-this-elephant-s-tooth-enamel-helps-reconstruct-wildlife-migrations/?sc=rsin /articles/misha-lived-in-zoos-but-this-elephant-s-tooth-enamel-helps-reconstruct-wildlife-migrations/?sc=rsin Thu, 13 Mar 2025 20:20:54 EST Misha lived her whole life in zoos, but this elephant's teeth are now helping scientists reconstruct wildlife migrations. University of Utah geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth or tusks reveal where large plant-eating animals may have roamed. University of Utah /articles/an-emissions-tale-of-two-cities-salt-lake-vs-los-angeles/?sc=rsin /articles/an-emissions-tale-of-two-cities-salt-lake-vs-los-angeles/?sc=rsin Fri, 07 Mar 2025 20:00:03 EST Researchers from the University of Utah and University of California set out to compare how freeway emissions trends differed in their states' largest metropolitan areas, Salt Lake City and Los Angeles. University of Utah /articles/the-future-of-telescope-lenses-is-flat/?sc=rsin /articles/the-future-of-telescope-lenses-is-flat/?sc=rsin Wed, 26 Feb 2025 19:15:52 EST The more powerful they get, traditional curved lenses used in telescopes become bigger and bulkier. University of Utah engineers have created the first flat telescope lens that can capture color while detecting light from faraway stars. University of Utah /articles/early-study-shows-promise-for-retinal-surgery-robot-invented-at-the-university-of-utah/?sc=rsin /articles/early-study-shows-promise-for-retinal-surgery-robot-invented-at-the-university-of-utah/?sc=rsin Thu, 20 Feb 2025 20:00:32 EST A robotic device developed by University of Utah engineers allows eye surgeons to perform high-precision procedures on the retina, the fragile lining on the back of the eye that is less than a millimeter thick. University of Utah /articles/maybe-earth-s-inner-core-is-not-so-solid-after-all/?sc=rsin /articles/maybe-earth-s-inner-core-is-not-so-solid-after-all/?sc=rsin Thu, 13 Feb 2025 20:45:07 EST New research from USC and University of Utah suggests the surface of "librating" inner core is deformed from contact with turbulent liquid outer core. University of Utah /articles/what-mass-deportation-means-for-housing-costs/?sc=rsin /articles/what-mass-deportation-means-for-housing-costs/?sc=rsin Wed, 29 Jan 2025 18:40:14 EST Mass deportation of undocumented immigrants has been touted by the incoming Trump administration as a way to increase jobs for U.S. citizens and reduce housing costs. But a new study by University of Utah business scholar concludes such a policy would likely backfire because it would drain the construction workforce, significantly slowing an already sluggish rate of new residential construction. University of Utah /articles/technology-for-oxidizing-atmospheric-methane-won-t-help-the-climate/?sc=rsin /articles/technology-for-oxidizing-atmospheric-methane-won-t-help-the-climate/?sc=rsin Fri, 17 Jan 2025 19:20:46 EST University of Utah atmospheric scientists show proposed "geoengineering" effort to remove methane, a potent greenhouse gas, from the atmosphere could worse air quality while providing minimal climate benefits. University of Utah /articles/pacific-islander-teens-assert-identity-through-language/?sc=rsin /articles/pacific-islander-teens-assert-identity-through-language/?sc=rsin Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:30:25 EST 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 ethnic lines where more groups share the same social space. University of Utah /articles/brand-new-physics-for-next-generation-spintronics/?sc=rsin /articles/brand-new-physics-for-next-generation-spintronics/?sc=rsin Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:25:07 EST 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 spin behavior favorable to cutting-edge technologies, like human brain-inspired computing that processes massive amounts of data with much greater efficiency. University of Utah /articles/doubling-down-on-detox/?sc=rsin /articles/doubling-down-on-detox/?sc=rsin Thu, 16 Jan 2025 19:10:02 EST 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 adapt to new environmental pressure, a notion challenging conventional wisdom. University of Utah /articles/coyote-numbers-are-often-higher-in-areas-where-they-are-hunted/?sc=rsin /articles/coyote-numbers-are-often-higher-in-areas-where-they-are-hunted/?sc=rsin Fri, 10 Jan 2025 20:10:06 EST 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. University of Utah /articles/u-s-suffers-from-low-social-mobility-is-sprawl-partly-to-blame/?sc=rsin /articles/u-s-suffers-from-low-social-mobility-is-sprawl-partly-to-blame/?sc=rsin Fri, 03 Jan 2025 20:10:42 EST 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 up in denser, more walkable areas. University of Utah /articles/does-coffee-prevent-head-and-neck-cancer/?sc=rsin /articles/does-coffee-prevent-head-and-neck-cancer/?sc=rsin Mon, 30 Dec 2024 16:35:40 EST Meta-analysis of past studies by University of Utah researchers calculates reduced risk of certain cancers for coffee and tea drinkers. University of Utah /articles/how-loss-of-urban-trees-affects-education-outcomes/?sc=rsin /articles/how-loss-of-urban-trees-affects-education-outcomes/?sc=rsin Tue, 17 Dec 2024 22:00:29 EST 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 ecosystem degradation are disproportionately felt by disadvantaged communities. University of Utah /articles/is-ozone-pollution-harming-unborn-children/?sc=rsin /articles/is-ozone-pollution-harming-unborn-children/?sc=rsin Wed, 11 Dec 2024 17:45:37 EST 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. University of Utah /articles/it-might-be-wrecking-the-climate-but-co-is-actually-good-for-your-cells/?sc=rsin /articles/it-might-be-wrecking-the-climate-but-co-is-actually-good-for-your-cells/?sc=rsin Wed, 04 Dec 2024 15:20:39 EST University of Utah chemists discover how bicarbonate can protect cells from oxidative stress in a study that challenges how cell damage has been studied for decades. University of Utah /articles/discovering-the-traits-of-extinct-birds/?sc=rsin /articles/discovering-the-traits-of-extinct-birds/?sc=rsin Wed, 27 Nov 2024 16:20:31 EST Analysis of 216 extinct species by University of Utah biologists found birds endemic to islands, ccupied ecologically specific niche, lacking flight, with large bodies and sharply angled wings were the ones likely to disappear the soonest after 1500. University of Utah /articles/cambrian-fossil-from-utah-illuminates-origins-of-vertebrate-life/?sc=rsin /articles/cambrian-fossil-from-utah-illuminates-origins-of-vertebrate-life/?sc=rsin Mon, 18 Nov 2024 18:25:57 EST Fossils recovered from Utah's West Desert and held in the Natural History Museum of Utah offer new insights into the origins of vertebrate life during the Cambrian Period. University of Utah