This story was first published in “Common Ground,” the official magazine of the Department of Mining Engineering at the University of Utah. September 20, 2025. Republished here with permission. “We predict that we will need more copper in the next twenty-five years than we have mined in the last five thousand years,” says Research Associate […]
Read MoreThis post originally appeared on the College of Science website and was published September 12, 2025. This article is republished here with permission. Above: Phyllis “Lissy” Coley at the newly named Phyllis D. Coley Trail on Barro Colorado Island, Panama. Credit: Jorge Aleman “I first went to Barro Colorado Island in 1975, where I did […]
Read MoreAboriginal Australian culture is regarded as humanity’s oldest continuous living culture. Existing scientific literature estimated their arrival on the continent of Australia at 65,000 years ago. However, recent genetics research that analyzes traces of Neanderthal DNA in Homo sapiens suggests the actual origination date was no more than 50,000 years ago. This post originally appeared in @theU […]
Read MoreHeader image: Sagarmatha National Park, Nepal. Photo credit: Peter Prokosch This post originally appeared in @theU and was published August 29, 2025. This article is republished here with permission. Glaciers across High Mountain Asia are losing more than 22 gigatons of ice per year—the equivalent to nearly 9 million Olympic swimming pools, according to research from the […]
Read MoreAbove: “Rufous-tailed Scrub Robbins in-hand: These Scrub Robbins were caught in the same round. Alva found one and Maria found one. Since they are good friends, they were excited to show each other their cool finds. They were surprised to find out that they had found the same birds.” All photos: courtesy of Nathan Murthy. […]
Read MoreAbove: Fredrick Manthi in the field in the Turkana Basin, northern Kenya This post originally appeared on the College of Science website and was published May 7, 2025. This article is republished here with permission. University of Utah adjunct professor Fredrick Kyalo Manthi has been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences (NAS). Manthi, who […]
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