To many big companies, you aren’t just a customer, but are described by multiple “dimensions” of information within a computer database. Now, a University of Utah computer scientist has devised a new method for simpler, faster “data mining,” or extracting and analyzing massive amounts of such data.
University of Utah researchers are using eye-tracking technology to pioneer a promising alternative to the polygraph for lie detection. The university recently licensed the technology to Credibility Assessment Technologies, of Park City.
Female zebra finches make one-note, low-pitch calls. Males sing over a wide range of frequencies. University of Utah scientists discovered how: The males’ stronger vocal muscles, not the pressure of air flowing through their lungs, lets them vary their pitch.
A purported human ancestor that was dubbed Science magazine’s 2009 Breakthrough of the Year is under fire from scientists who say there is scant evidence for claims that there were dense woods at the African site where the creature lived 4.4 million years ago.
Vehicle use affects everything from the environment to obesity. A study of commuter's travel choices by a U of U planner aims to make transportation decisions easier for those charged with designing cities that use less carbon in the future.
A fission reaction in a nuclear reactor? There’s an “app” for that! An iPhone “application” or software developed at the University of Utah can display simulations of a nuclear reactor’s core on an iPod, iPhone or iPad.
Knocking genes out of action allows researchers to learn what genes do. University of Utah biologists pioneered the field. Mario Capecchi won a Nobel Prize for knockout mice. Kent Golic crippled fruit fly genes. Now, Erik Jorgensen and colleagues have deleted genes in nematode worms.
A University of Utah researcher helped discover how a “wimpy” protein motor gains the strength necessary to move nerve cells and components inside them. The findings provide clues to a rare brain disorder that often kills babies within months of birth.
The first weekend in May marks urbanist Jane Jacob's legacy across the country with neighbors walking together to discover what makes their cities—from Boston to Los Angeles—vibrant and livable.
Teens and “tweens” with type 1 diabetes have more trouble sticking to their treatment plan – thus raising their risk of eye, kidney and heart disease – if their parents become lax about monitoring the child’s treatment, or if the mother-child relationship is poor.
A new study from University of Utah psychologists found a small group of people with an extraordinary ability to multitask: Unlike 97.5 percent of those studied, they can safely drive while chatting on a cell phone.
Utah’s world-famous red rocks have yielded a rare skeleton of a new species of plant-eating dinosaur that lived 185 million years ago and may have been buried alive by a collapsing sand dune.
NPR’s Car Talk guys, Tom and Ray Magliozzi, teamed up with University of Utah psychologist David Strayer -- an expert on how cell phones impair drivers -- to launch the Driver Distraction Center at cartalk.com/distraction.
U professor explores why scandals of this decade like Enron may happen — and how to prevent them from recurring.
University of Utah engineers developed a computer-controlled, motorized hand and arm support that will let doctors, artists and others precisely control scalpels, brushes and tools over a wider area than otherwise possible, and with less fatigue.
Like silkworm moths, butterflies and spiders, caddisfly larvae spin silk, but they do so underwater. Now, University of Utah researchers have discovered why the fly’s silk is sticky when wet and how that may make it valuable as an adhesive tape during surgery.
University of Utah scientists developed an easier way to predict snowfall amounts and density – fluffy powder or wet cement. The method has been adopted by the National Weather Service for use throughout Utah and could be adjusted for use anywhere.
The University of Utah now is ranked first in the country along with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in creating new startup companies from research-based inventions.
Humans are among the few animals that step first on the heel when walking. A University of Utah study shows that compared with heel-first walking, it takes 53 percent more energy to walk on the balls of your feet, and 83 percent more energy to walk on your toes.
Two UofU faculty members offer their insights into the behavioral and operational questions involved in product recalls like that underway at Toyota.
Two faculty members at the University of Utah have over 35 years studying love, romance and relationships covering everyone from adolescents to couples in later life.
At times this winter, greater Salt Lake City has harbored the nation's most polluted air. Now, researchers from the University of Utah are leading a three-year, $1.3 million study to better understand winter weather “inversion” conditions associated with poor air quality.
Nicole Detling Miller knows honing the mental aspects of sport is a competetive advantage. Now as a "mental coach" she will be sharing those skills with US speedskaters at the 2010 Olympic Winter Games.
When University of Utah scientists discovered a new kind of laser generated by an electrically conducting polymer, no one knew how it worked. Now, researchers have found “random lasers” occur because of mirror-like cavities in the polymers. Such lasers may prove useful for diagnosing cancer.
University of Utah scientists discovered that air flows in one direction through alligators' lungs, just as it does in birds. That suggests this breathing method may have helped dinosaurs’ ancestors dominate after Earth’s worst mass extinction.
University of Utah biologists found that finches – the birds Darwin studied – develop antibodies against two parasites that moved to the Galapagos Islands, suggesting the birds can fight the alien invaders.
The best view yet published of the Yellowstone supervolcano's plume shows it slants upward from at least 410 miles deep. Another study indicates the volcano's magma chamber is 20 percent larger than once thought.
Discovery of a new species of 213-million-year-old meat-eating dinosaur in New Mexico suggests the first dinosaurs wandered between parts of the Pangea supercontinent that later became North and South America, according to a team of researchers from the several institutions, including the Utah Museum of Natural History at the University of Utah.
Trio of experts in global conflict, counter-terrorism and dispute resolution available for perspective on Afghanistan situation.
A University of Utah scientist argues that rising carbon dioxide emissions – the major cause of global warming – cannot be stabilized unless the world’s economy collapses or society builds the equivalent of one new nuclear power plant each day.
A University of Utah study suggests how eating a traditional Thanksgiving dinner with turkey and mashed potatoes makes consumers less likely to buy on impulse, which might affect their shopping on Black Friday.
A University of Utah engineer has developed a new method to remove oil sheen by repeatedly pressurizing and depressurizing ozone gas, creating microscopic bubbles that attack the oil so it can be removed by sand filters.
David Rudd, dean of t the University of Utah's college of social and behavioral science, is a clinical suicidologist. He has also served as consultant to the U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army and the Department of Defense.
Chemists found the first conclusive link between the size of catalyst particles on a surface, their electronic properties and their ability to speed reactions. It is a step toward better catalysts for energy production and to fight global warming.
The University of Utah will celebrate the initial observations or “first light” of its new $860,000 research telescope in southwest Utah during a Wednesday, Nov. 11 symposium and reception on the Salt Lake City campus.
World’s top endangered language experts gather at University of Utah November 12 to 14 to take the first step in cataloguing endangered and dying languages in a comprehensive online database.
Contrary to what you might believe, living near a variety of restaurants, convenience stores, supermarkets and even fast food outlets actually lowers your risk for obesity, according to a new study from the University of Utah.
The University of Utah will hold its fifth Utah Symposium in Science and Literature during Nov. 5-7. It will feature a poet, a composer and a mathematician discussing how their thinking is influenced by the different media they use to express their imaginations.
University of Utah engineers showed that a wireless network of radio transmitters can track people moving behind solid walls. The system could help cops and firefighters nab intruders, and rescue hostages, fire victims and elderly people who fall.
University of Utah researchers created new iPhone applications or “apps” to help scientists, students, doctors and patients study the human body, evaluate medical problems and analyze other three-dimensional images.
New Utah indian curriculum guide brings to life the unique history and culture of Utah’s first citizens: the Ute, Navajo, Goshute, Southern Paiute and Northwest Band of the Shoshone nations.
University of Utah medical ethics expert Jeffrey R. Botkin will chair a federal panel that will review scientists’ requests to conduct government-funded research using embryonic stem cells left over from couples who used “test-tube fertilization” to have babies.
To ensure drinking water is adequately disinfected, University of Utah chemists developed a two-minute water quality monitoring method that just started six months of tests aboard the International Space Station.
University of Utah researchers will inject cool and pressurized water into a “dry” geothermal well during a $10.2 million study aimed at boosting the productivity of geothermal power plants and making them feasible nationwide.
Two University of Utah professors are available for interviews about the fires burning in California and Utah.
University of Utah researchers used data from Portuguese water dogs – the breed of President Barack Obama’s dog Bo – to help find a gene that gives some dogs curly hair and others long, wavy hair.
University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method someday might shield submarines from sonar, planes from radar, buildings from earthquakes, and oil rigs and coastal structures from tsunamis.
University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that turns semisolid in the presence of semen, trapping AIDS virus particles in a microscopic mesh so they can't infect vaginal cells.
New Zealand is the site of one of the world's youngest subduction zones, where the Pacific Plate of Earth's crust dives beneath the Australian Plate. Now, a University of Utah study shows how water deep underground helps the subduction zone mature and paves the way for it to generate powerful earthquakes.
Experimental devices that read brain signals have helped paralyzed people use computers and may let amputees control bionic limbs. But existing devices use tiny electrodes that poke into the brain. Now, a University of Utah study shows that brain signals controlling arm movements can be detected accurately using new microelectrodes that sit on the brain but don't penetrate it.
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