(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Utah study shows that men hit harder when they stand on two legs than when they are on all fours, and when hitting downward rather than upward, giving tall, upright males a fighting advantage.
Evolution
May 18, 2011
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Generating electricity from the hot rocks deep underground is clean, safe and renewable - and it's about to take a step forward in Utah.
Energy & Green Tech
Apr 28, 2015
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah geologists identified an amazing concentration of dinosaur footprints that they call "a dinosaur dance floor," located in a wilderness on the Arizona-Utah border where there was a sandy ...
Earth Sciences
Oct 20, 2008
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Having an imperfect body may come with some substantial benefits, according to a new article in the December issue of Current Anthropology.
Dec 3, 2008
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Can you feel the heat? To a thermal camera, which measures infrared radiation, the heat that we can feel is visible, like the heat of a traveler in an airport with a fever or the cold of a leaky window or door in the winter.
General Physics
May 12, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- For decades, a 2.3 million- to 1.2 million-year-old human relative named Paranthropus boisei has been nicknamed Nutcracker Man because of his big, flat molar teeth and thick, powerful jaw. But a definitive ...
Archaeology
May 2, 2011
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Space has become a trash heap.
Space Exploration
Oct 29, 2021
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Utah mathematicians developed a new cloaking method, and it's unlikely to lead to invisibility cloaks like those used by Harry Potter or Romulan spaceships in "Star Trek." Instead, the new method ...
General Physics
Aug 17, 2009
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New research disputes a long-held view that our earliest tool-bearing ancestors contributed to the demise of large mammals in Africa over the last several million years. Instead, the researchers argue that long-term environmental ...
Archaeology
Nov 22, 2018
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Anyone who has visited the ancient ruins of great civilizations can appreciate the difficulty of visualizing the buildings at their peak. Today's visitor to the British Museum can see structures of the Aztecs, ...
Computer Sciences
Sep 23, 2009
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