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Environmental law and natural resource experts respond to Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke’s proposals to shrink four national monuments and allow logging, fishing and other activities in six more.
Elephants naturally avoid cancer after 55 million years of evolution. Scientists are studying if they can extract lessons that could help people.
Nine states are deciding whether to legalize marijuana. Yet the drug’s prohibition at the federal level has created an unstable financial environment for producers and retailers.
Criminal justice experts suggest one way to change the system to eliminate racial bias.
It wasn’t even until the late 19th century that this was codified into law.
Terrorist groups don’t need to go to Panama to create a shell company. They can easily hide their money in many U.S. states.
Behind the armed takeover of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge in Oregon lie decades of controversy over federal control of public land in western states.
New research upends the previous theory that tsetse flies – and the disease they carry – were the main reason the spread of livestock domestication in Africa stalled out for a thousand years.
Winners of the Wellcome Images Award 2015 tell us about how they got their special shot.
What kind of coffee you buy matters a lot to birds — key indicators of biodiversity in the tropics which likely provide many environmental and economic services.
Relationships are often interpreted as the outcome of an exchange of goods and services. Common knowledge says that the sexes want different things from a partner. These preferences are often reduced to…
Research among the Makushi of southwestern Guyana shatters stereotypes about men wanting casual sex and women wanting relationships.
Although the midterms are typically referred to as federal elections, there is no federal entity that governs the conduct of elections in the US. There are basic election laws governing the timing of federal…
Darwin’s finches, a group of 14 species found only in the Galapagos Islands, are perhaps most well known as one of the inspirations for Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. A classic…
Jason Shepherd, assistant professor of neurobiology and anatomy at the University of Utah answered questions posed by the public on Reddit. The Conversation has curated the highlights. Cognitive disorders…
Improving life conditions for humans has been linked to increased carbon emissions. Professor Andrew Jorgenson’s research…
For a firefighter, knowing when it’s time to evacuate can be the difference between life and death. But that can be a difficult call to make when you’re trying to protect life, property and resources while…
One hectare of land in a tropical forest can hold 650 tree species – more than in all of Canada and the continental US. This has left biologists baffled for decades. Now, with advances in data analysis…
Scientists in the US have developed a calculator from living cells, using old-fashioned analog programming. Their hope is that the technology could be used in the future to program cells to kill cancer…
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Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Geology and Geophysics, University of Utah
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Resident in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, University of Utah
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Associate Professor of Communication, University of Utah
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Assistant Professor, University of Utah
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James T. Jensen Endowed Professor for Transactional Law and Director, Program on Intellectual Property and Technology Law, University of Utah
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Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of Utah
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Assistant Professor of Social Psychology, University of Utah
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Associate Professor, University of Utah
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Associate Professor of History; Director, Middle East Center, University of Utah
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Professor of Computing, University of Utah
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PhD Student/Graduate Teaching Assistant, University of Utah
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Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Utah
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College Of Social Work, University of Utah
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Professor, Communication, University of Utah
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Assistant Professor, University of Utah