Study visually captures a hard truth: Walking home at night is not the same for women
An eye-catching new study shows just how different the experience of walking home at night is for women versus men.
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An eye-catching new study shows just how different the experience of walking home at night is for women versus men.
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Airlines' accident risk is highest when they are performing very close to their financial targets, according to a study by a professor in BYUs Marriott School of Management.
Economics & Business
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They may be tiny weapons, but Brigham Young University's holography research group has figured out how to create lightsabers—green for Yoda and red for Darth Vader, naturally—with actual luminous beams rising from them.
Optics & Photonics
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Looking for a few quick tips to help you better belt out Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer during this years Christmas caroling? BYU music professor Arden Hopkin has just the thing for you.
Other
Dec 13, 2011
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Brigham Young University mechanical engineering professors Larry Howell and Spencer Magleby have made a name for themselves by applying the principles of origami to engineering. Now they're applying their origami skills to ...
Engineering
Mar 7, 2016
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Animals in the wild are often smarter than we give them credit for. This time it's the elk.
Plants & Animals
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As they brushed the last layer of dirt from a small section of mosaic on the synagogue floor, the archaeologists were momentarily baffled by the odd image beginning to emerge.
Archaeology
Aug 24, 2022
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It's human nature to hate losing. Unfortunately, it's also human nature to overreact to a loss, potentially abandoning a solid strategy and thus increasing your chances of losing the next time around.
Mathematics
Jul 21, 2014
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Professor Richard Watt and his chemistry students suspected that a common protein could potentially react with sunlight and harvest its energy similar to what chlorophyll does during photosynthesis.
Nanomaterials
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