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Measuring CO2 to fight global warming: Scientists develop way to enforce future greenhouse gas treaty

If the world's nations ever sign a treaty to limit emissions of climate-warming carbon dioxide gas, there may be a way to help verify compliance: a new method developed by scientists from the University of ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created May 14, 2012 | popularity 3.2 / 5 (9) | comments 6 | with audio podcast

Beetles chomping their way through salt cedar at Lake Meredith

Dr. Jerry Michels, a Texas AgriLife Research entomologist in Amarillo, is hopeful this will be the year major defoliation occurs on salt cedar that lines the banks of the waterways leading into Lake Meredith.

Biology / Ecology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Man linked to 'Anonymous' pleads not guilty (Update)

(AP) -- An Ohio man linked to the hacker collective "Anonymous" pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of breaching the websites of the Utah Chiefs of Police Association and the Salt Lake City Police Department.

Technology / Internet

created Apr 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Radiation detected 400 miles off Japanese coast

(AP) -- Radioactive contamination from the Fukushima power plant disaster has been detected as far as almost 400 miles off Japan in the Pacific Ocean, with water showing readings of up to 1,000 times more ...

Space & Earth / Environment

created Feb 21, 2012 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Juror in Microsoft case at peace with decision

(AP) -- The lone holdout juror who prevented a Utah company from getting as much as $1.2 billion from one-time rival Microsoft Corp. for alleged antitrust violations says he's at peace with his decision.

Technology / Business

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 3.3 / 5 (3) | comments 3

Overstock.com unloads goods at Utah auction

(AP) -- Overstock.com, the online retailer known for selling distressed merchandise, was feeling a little distressed itself. With household merchandise stacking up in a warehouse, it opened the doors Thursday ...

Technology / Business

created Dec 16, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Utah company wraps up $1B case against Microsoft

Microsoft Corp. purposely duped a Utah company into believing its writing application would be included in the Windows 95 rollout, then pulled the plug so Microsoft could gain market share with its own product, ...

Technology / Business

created Dec 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 5

Dashing through the snow, in a one-truck radar dish

SCHUSS. The term for a straight, downhill ski run. In the land of the Greatest Snow on Earth--Utah--SCHUSS is also the moniker for storm-chasing, Old Man Winter-style.

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Dec 07, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Gates testifies in $1B lawsuit against Microsoft

Microsoft's Bill Gates took the witness stand Monday in a $1 billion antitrust lawsuit accusing the software maker of duping a competitor prior to its rollout of Windows 95.

Technology / Business

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 5

Storm chasers of Utah: Tornado-hunting radar truck seeks Wasatch snow and rain

A truck-mounted radar dish often used to chase Midwest tornadoes is getting a workout in Utah this month as University of Utah meteorologists use it to get an unprecedented look inside snow and rain storms ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Nov 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Novell vs. Microsoft in Utah trial over Windows 95

A legal blame game between high-tech industry giants Novell Inc. and Microsoft Corp. is under way in a Salt Lake City federal court as the companies squabble over fair business practices.

Technology / Business

created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Rapid changes in Greenland climate last 5,000 years, study finds

(PhysOrg.com) -- Abrupt average temperature changes of as much as 4 or 5 degrees Celsius over a few decades may have profoundly affected human civilization for cultures that occupied western Greenland over ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Jun 01, 2011 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Historic development maps now available online

Those seeking historic records of commercial and residential development across Utah can now access them easily online through the digital collection of Sanborn Insurance Maps at the University of Utah's J. ...

Other Sciences / Other

created May 10, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Utah rock art provides glimpse of Hawaiian life

Halfway up Salt Mountain in Utah, petroglyphs on a limestone rock bear witness to an obscure twist of history: a Hawaiian Mormon settlement that flourished briefly more than a century ago.

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Field study of smoggy inversions to end

During the past two months, researchers launched weather balloons, drove instrument-laden cars and flew a glider to study winter inversions that often choke Salt Lake City in smog and trap dirty air in other ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

created Feb 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0