The National Institute on Drug Abuse estimated that 2.1 million Americans misused prescription opioid pain relievers in 2012. In 2014, Utah was ranked seventh in the nation for “drug poisoning deaths,”...
Students competed March 10 and 11 in a robotics competition held by FIRST, a program named "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." High school students worked in teams to build robots...
Nicholas Kanaan, emergency medicine doctor at University of Utah Health Care, recently published a case study in emergency medicine on an airway syndrome affecting people in the Nepali Himalayas that results...
This winter, the Salt Lake Valley spent several days with the worst air quality in the nation. Several groups and individuals at the University of Utah are working to educate citizens about it. Among them...
Many scientists believe the United States will experience a serious dilemma in the near future — a severe lack of water. As the number of people in the U.S. rises, increasingly more water is going...
The unpredictability of water in Utah causes worry for residents. Every year mountain runoff brings floods, while the threat of drought hangs over the desert state. Some communities worry about the danger...
About 67% of land in Utah is federally owned — the second highest percentage in the nation — making the state uniquely positioned to host studies of the dark sky.
‘The disappearing dark,’ a phrase...
For the second consecutive year, a student from the University of Utah was awarded the prestigious Churchill Scholarship. The Churchill Scholarship was created at the request of Winston Churchill, who...
Research from the University of Utah psychology department discovered a simpler and more efficient way to prevent suicide attempts from veterans and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder patients.
In the...
Nausea, fever, weight loss, rapid heart rate, diarrhea ten to fifteen times a day, and kidney failure. These are just some of the symptoms of a severe infection from a small bacterium called Clostridium...
