Science Stories

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NHMU honors its former executive director, Dr. Sarah B. George, and features a surprise announcement by the president of the University of Utah.

The Dentinger Lab at NHMU has published a new paper in the journal New Phytologist that describes their work with the much beloved porcini mushroom.

Due to their misrepresentation in terrifying lore and literature, bats are misunderstood and feared by many. But they offer important scientific insights!

Angkor is a vast complex of temples and other archaeological structures rising out of the jungle in northern Cambodia.

Ethnographer Alex Greenwald is working with tribal leaders to identify and interview elders, artists, and knowledge keepers from Southwestern Native communities

A team of researchers led by the University of Utah created a fine-grained analysis of El Niño’s impact on animal communities spanning the past 12,000 years.

One of the most striking dinosaurs to appear in Jurassic World Dominion is the Utah native horned dinosaur Nasutoceratops titusi.

Global climate change affects which species survive, which become extinct, and which evolve in new ways. But how can paleontologists detect these changes?

NHMU science writer and author Riley Black’s new book The Last Days of the Dinosaurs is a stunning achievement in explaining a pivotal event in earth's history.

Named Cladonota cryani, the small insect named by entomologist Dawn Flynn from specimens collected in Bolivia, has been named after NHMU director Jason Cryan.

Dark matter has a little bit of an image problem, but University of Utah astrophysicist Pearl Sandick says, it's a great thing that dark matter exists.