Utah State University scientists report a watershed-scale experiment in highly degraded streams within Oregon's John Day Basin demonstrates building beaver dam analogs allows beavers to increase their dam building activities, ...
Ecology
Jul 8, 2016
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Finding water in the desert is a relatively easy task for a species of moss that seems to flourish in even the most arid regions. That's according to a new study by a team of scientists and engineers who wanted to understand ...
Plants & Animals
Jun 6, 2016
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All living things require nitrogen for survival, but the world depends on only two known processes to break nitrogen's ultra-strong bonds and allow conversion to a form humans, animals and plants can consume. One is a natural, ...
Materials Science
Apr 21, 2016
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How do you describe a river? By its shape? By how much water flows through it? By the plants and animals that live in and around it?
Environment
Mar 16, 2016
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The water meter buried in your front yard isn't exactly the most cutting-edge piece of technology. While they are accurate, most residential water meters are read only once per month, resulting in rough usage data - often ...
Environment
Mar 3, 2016
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Utah's Great Salt Lake is the defining physical feature of its arid Western state. Seventy-five miles long and nearly 35 miles wide, the salt water remnant of ancient Lake Bonneville teems with aquatic life, serves as a critical ...
Environment
Feb 26, 2016
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A Utah State University researcher has taken a big step toward making a safer, more natural dye that can be used in the food, textile, cosmetic and other industries.
Biochemistry
Feb 22, 2016
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If you want to track the reproductive success of a plant-eater, monitor its food supply: plants. And, if you want to track vegetation, monitor precipitation.
Ecology
Feb 12, 2016
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It takes a perfect flick of the wrist and just the right angle to get a disk-shaped stone to skip across the surface of the water multiple times. So why is it so easy to get such impressive water-skipping performance from ...
General Physics
Feb 4, 2016
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Scientists from Utah State University and Texas A&M University confirm a remnant of the Wild, Wild West lives on in a remote region of southeastern Utah.
Ecology
Dec 16, 2015
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