Beneath Utah’s #GreatSaltLake lies a record of earthquakes dating back thousands of years. New research by #USGS found evidence of four major quakes—magnitude 6.9 to 7.3—along Wasatch Fault, occurring over past 11,000 years. #Seismology @uussquake.bsky.social doi.org/10.1130/B385...

Study led by @utah.edu engineers points ways to adjust data center operations to reduce pressure on Western grid—and costs by up to $590 million a year. attheu.utah.edu/science-tech...

How data center flexibility can relieve stress on the Western grid - @theU

Study led by U engineers shows data center operations can be adjusted to net savings worth up to $590 million a year.

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These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

White House proposes new rules giving political appointees final say on research grants

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

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By reanalyzing archived seismic data, @utah.edu seismologists have confirmed 10 quakes beneath northeast Utah and southwest Wyoming since 1979 at depths below Earth’s crust in the mantle. @uussquake.bsky.social @uofu-science.bsky.social

To better understand long-term suicide trends, @utah.edu researchers analyzed federal mortality data going back to 1900. Their study shows suicide follow decades-long cycles shaped by social forces, not just individual psychology. attheu.utah.edu/health-medic...

Landmark study reveals century-long cycles in U.S. suicide rates and a long-term crisis among youth - @theU

Research led by Huntsman Mental Health taps 122 years of mortality data to build most comprehensive picture of suicide trends ever assembled.

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What could happen if Iran launches retaliatory strikes on Persian Gulf’s vital desalination plants? @utah.edu historian @mchrislow.bsky.social offers this great analysis. theconversation.com/persian-gulf...

Persian Gulf desalination plants could become military targets in regional war

Key sources of drinking water have been targets in past conflicts. And Iranian strikes have already hit close to some.

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#GreatSaltLake biome is getting more crowded with @utah.edu’s discovery of new nematode species, one of which was just named, D. wo’aabi, for the Shoshone word for worm. Worm discoverer @drjuliejung.bsky.social talks about it on @npr.org www.npr.org/2025/12/16/n... @uofubiology.bsky.social

Only two species can survive in Great Salt Lake? Scientist says — hold my Nalgene

Scientist Julie Jung set out on a hike along the Great Salt Lake to find nematodes. She ended up discovering a new species.

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Documentary, The Memory of Darkness, Light, and Ice, details how @utahstate.bsky.social geoscientist Tammy Rittenour helped reveal climate secrets locked in Greenland’s ice sheet. Her Luminescence Lab dated old ice cores, pinpointing time when Greenland was ice free. www.usu.edu/today/story/...

USU Lab Contributes to New Documentary on Findings Beneath Greenland Ice Sheet

A new documentary shows how USU researchers are helping determine when life last existed where the Greenland Ice Sheet is now.

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Inequities in park access along racial and ethnic lines abounds in the US, despited the many benefits public green space provides people, new @utah.edu study finds. Time to overhaul funding models to improve access for underserved communities. attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...

Who benefits from neighborhood parks? - @theU

A first-of-its-kind study found that public greenspaces are unevenly distributed in nearly all U.S. communities, leaving some residents—particularly those in ethnic enclaves—without access to a...

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Seismology meets botany: Here’s what ambient vibrations reveal about dynamic properties and structure of towering saguaro cacti. @utah.edu attheu.utah.edu/research/sei...

Seismology meets botany: U geologist applies vibration science to saguaros - @theU

Research uses earthquake-monitoring tools to measure how towering cacti resonate from wind and ground motion without harming them.

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Curated by ancient rodents and hardened with their pee: What pack rat middens reveal about Range Creek’s past. Geographers look to pollen grains and macrofossils preserved in poop piles to reconstruct Utah canyon's paleoecology. attheu.utah.edu/feature/the-... @utah.edu

The poop-pile time capsules of Range Creek Canyon - @theU

Paleoecologist Marti Sorensen analyzes pack rat middens to reconstruct the ecology of NHMU-managed archaeological preserve.

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Private timberlands managed for industrial logging are more prone to severe burning in wildfires than national forests. LiDAR-based study led by @utah.edu shows why. @wilkescenter.bsky.social attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff... 2018 imagery mapped forest structure in Sierra before region burned

Industry managed forests more likely to fuel megafires - @theU

Forests managed by timber companies were more likely to exhibit the conditions that megafires love—dense stands of regularly spaced trees with continuous vegetation connecting the...

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Utah’s #BonnevilleSaltFlats have shrunk by 75% since 1925. @utah.edu geologists Brenda Bowen and Mark Radwin use remote satellite, aerial imagery to analyze loss of halite crusts sciencedirect.com/science/arti... At current decline rate, 185-358 acres a year, they could be gone by 2072

Sediment records from #GreatSaltLake show post-Mormon settlement irrigation and the 1959 railroad causeway triggered environmental shifts unseen in 2,000 years. @utah.edu attheu.utah.edu/research/the...

The 8,000-year history of Great Salt Lake and its watershed is recorded in sediments - @theU

Geoscientist's analysis of carbon and oxygen isotopes documents profound human-driven changes arising from agriculture and rail causeway.

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Transdisciplinary study from #UniversityofUtah concludes unborn children are at higher risk of intellectual disabilities from their mothers’, even grandmothers’ exposure to air pollution while pregnant. attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff... @utah.edu

Industrial pollution’s imprint lasts generations - @theU

According to new analysis using Utah Population Database, a woman’s prenatal exposures can increase risk of intellectual disabilities in daughter’s children.

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After 13 years of pouring money down this rathole, the state of Utah still pays people to indiscriminately kill coyotes, despite reams of evidence that this cruel policy does little to control this resilient predator, not to mention flagrant fraud on the part of some bounty collectors.

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Utah’s efforts to lower the Coyote population could possibly backfire, according to science.

AI chatbots can be an asset in mental health treatment. But things get risky when they try to do work that requires a license for humans.

In its first year of work, Utah’s AI office laid out mental health best practices

AI has a role to play in mental health care, but it also comes with potential risks.

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Thanks to federal funding and curious scientists, the U.S. has long driven life-saving discoveries in genetics. That legacy is in serious jeopardy under proposed cuts to NSF and NIH. Retired @utah.edu biomedical researchers explain what's at stake in @sltrib.com op-ed

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Proposed cuts to the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation “would cause immense and largely irreversible damage to the successful American scientific enterprise,” write Jerry Kaplan and Dana Carroll in an op-ed.

@utah.edu campus is Utah’s official arboretum with 11,600 trees spanning 300 species, from Walter Cottam’s legendary gambel oak hybrids to majestic Japanese zelkova in Cottam’s Gulch. Read the university magazine cover story by Lisa Anderson. @redbuttegarden magazine.utah.edu/issues/summe...

A Tree Grows on Campus - The University of Utah Magazine

As Utah’s official state arboretum, the U campus and Red Butte Garden & Arboretum contain an impressive collection of awe-inspiring trees.

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‘Jar of bones’ recovered from Utah’s public lands and held for 20 years in the collections of @nhmu.bsky.social found to be those of a Cretaceous lizard previously unknown to science. Study by @utah.edu gives it a name: Bolg amondol, relative of modern Gila monster. attheu.utah.edu/facultystaff...

New monstersaur species a ‘goblin prince’ among dinosaurs - @theU

Discovery of Bolg amondol, a name inspired by J.R.R. Tolkien’s “Lord of the Rings” universe, reveals the complex evolutionary history of giant Gila monster relatives that roamed Utah’s prehistoric tro...

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@utah.edu medical ethicists are revealing untold story of Black inmate used in malaria experiments at #Stateville Penitentiary and how it led to discoveries that help prevent adverse drug reactions today. attheu.utah.edu/health-medic...

A new look at the Stateville prison malaria experiments - @theU

Utah scholars pull back the curtain on the untold story of Black prisoners and the science of preventing adverse drug reactions.

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LED lighting doesn't just save electricity, it can also prevent bird collisions with buildings, which kills millions a year. Researchers with @utahstate.bsky.social figure out how shining ultraviolet light on glass makes windows appear solid. www.npr.org/2025/05/26/n...

How LED lights can help birds avoid fatal run-ins with windows

Shining ultraviolet lights on windows can substantially decrease the number of birds that fly into them and die, new research at Utah State University shows.

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Our energy future? Cue Fred Flintstone @washingtonpost.com

Climate change is not just disrupting songbirds’ breeding and migration schedules. The timing of their fall molt is occurring earlier every year, according to bird banding research from @utah.edu @sekercioglu.bsky.social @uofubiology.bsky.social attheu.utah.edu/research/as-...

As climate warms, migratory songbirds’ fall feather molt advances by a day every year - @theU

Study by U biologists taps data from 22,000 songbirds captured at Bonderman Field Station to reveal changes in how they replace their feathers

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“It’s like they have a superpower.” Genetic analysis of all-women extreme divers finds changes linked to blood pressure, cold tolerance. Secrets of the Haenyeo divers ⬇️🤿

Secrets of the Haenyeo divers - @theU

“It’s like they have a superpower”: Genetic analysis of all-women extreme divers finds changes linked to blood pressure, cold tolerance.

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Spring runoff is older than you think: Research by #UofU hydrologists finds water flowing out of Western ranges is, on average, more than 5 years old, demonstrating that runoff has a prolonged underground journey.

Spring runoff is older than you think - @theU

Research by U hydrologists finds water flowing out of Western ranges is, on average, more than 5 years old, demonstrating that runoff has a prolonged underground journey

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We're partnering with @xprize.org to revolutionize healthy aging. The $101-million, 7-year global competition will leverage our Utah Data Coordinating Center to validate the science of competing XPRIZE teams, who are working toward a goal of extending "health spans."

U and XPrize partner to revolutionize healthy aging - @theU

The U’s Utah Data Coordinating Center will validate the science of teams vying for the $101 million XPRIZE Healthspan, a competition aimed at closing the gap between health and lifespan.

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University Police find answers in 1973 missing student cold case: “We never stopped hoping for answers about Doug’s disappearance. We are relieved to finally have some answers. After 52 years, this result, while sad, is nothing short of a miracle.” 📰 attheu.utah.edu/safety/unive...

Utah needs more herpetologists like Geoff Smith. Here's the latest news from IguanaThon

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“We live in an amazing place, and it has a lot of species that you might not expect.”

This guy is onto what could be an awesome board game!