Ancient Roman concrete is still standing strong after thousands of years, and not only does it resist damage, but salt water actually makes it stronger. X-ray examinations have found the key to the mixture’s incredible longevity, which could help improve modern recipes.
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Not long ago, University of Utah assistant professor Jeff Bates was contacted by a nonprofit advocacy group for women and girls in Guatemala. The group was seeking eco-friendly feminine hygiene products. Bates turned to a team of his students, and they created a completely biodegradable maxi pad.
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Current approaches to cranial surgery are painstaking, but researchers at the University of Utah say they have come up with a much more efficient way of doing things, developing a robotic drill that could cut operation times by hours and reduce the risk of infection throughout.
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Hydrogen sulfide is not a gas that is usually described as life sustaining. However while its toxic fumes might knock most of us out, there is a creature that thrives on this toxic gas – the giant shipworm, a mysterious mud-dwelling creature that has eluded scientists till now.
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Badgers are known to bury food items underground, but new research has revealed just how deep they are willing to dig. Camera traps have caught a single badger burying an entire cow carcass, the first evidence of the scavenger stowing away an animal carcass larger than itself.
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Researchers at the University of Utah have developed a new thermoelectric material that doesn’t use the toxic chemicals common in others, but is still efficient and affordable enough for use in everyday products, meaning the day a phone can be charged by a cooking pot may not be far away.
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With an epidemic of addiction to opioid painkillers on the rise, researchers say they've found an alternative for pain relief from an unlikely source – a small snail found in the Caribbean Sea. The little cone snail Conus regius produces a venom that blocks a different pain pathway.
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It can be a hassle, taking your glasses on and off to switch between near and distant vision. That's why scientists from the University of Utah have developed glasses that change focus automatically, depending on what you're looking at.
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Researchers at the University of Utah have devised a method to create invisible images embedded within normal-looking images using cheap inkjet printers. The data hidden in these images can then only be revealed using sub-millimeter electromagnetic radiation
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Scientists have observed the brain's reward circuits in Mormons as they engaged in spiritual activities, finding that they activated regions in a very similar fashion to other stimuli like gambling, drugs, sex and love.
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