Andrea Christensen
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Chevron Phillips Chemical teams up with BYU researchers to speed up catalyst development
May 08, 2018 12:52 PM
Chemical companies are currently racing to develop new catalysts that efficiently produce key commodity chemicals used in the manufacture of plastics. Dr. Daniel Ess and his graduate students developed a computer model to identify new catalysts. Read more about it at BYU News.
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Want Safe Travels? Find Freeways with these Features
November 27, 2017 10:57 AM
New BYU research commissioned by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) shows a number of highway features that make accidents less likely. Among them are some that are intuitive: minimal hills and curves, paved right shoulders and concrete-barrier medians. But one finding was less expected: lower speed limits were associated with higher rates of accidents.
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Researchers Use Wikipedia to Give AI Context Clues
October 13, 2017 11:34 AM
Walk into a room, see a chair, and your brain will tell you that you can sit in it, tip it over or lift it up, but you wouldn’t even consider drinking it, promoting it or unlocking it. As humans, explains BYU computer science professor David Wingate, we know intuitively that certain verbs pair naturally with certain nouns, and we also know that most verbs don’t make sense when paired with random nouns.
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BYU-Created Mini Tool has Massive Potential
August 31, 2017 01:06 PM
BYU researchers have created a miniaturized, portable version of a tool now capable of analyzing Mars’ atmosphere — and that’s just one of its myriad possible uses. For decades mass spectrometers have offered a relatively fast and highly sensitive way to analyze and detect chemical compounds. But their bulky size has been a hindrance, limiting their in-field potential.
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How Secure are Your Messages?
August 15, 2017 01:11 PM
Researchers at BYU have learned that most users of popular messaging apps Facebook Messenger, What’sApp and Viber are leaving themselves exposed to fraud or other hacking because they don’t know about or aren’t using important security options.
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BYU Back to E3 with Nokbak
July 31, 2017 09:50 AM
They spent a year brainstorming, creating, designing and revising (and revising and revising), and last week, a team of BYU students took their capstone-project video game to the industry’s largest showcase: the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3).
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Hottest Known Planet Published in Nature
June 07, 2017 10:27 AM
It’s hot. Seriously hot. Not creeping-into-the-90s-crank-up-the-AC hot: nearly-8,000-degrees-Fahrenheit hot.
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Another Student Emmy Nom — This Time with Accompanying Wedding Bells
May 24, 2017 10:32 AM
It’s not a love story. And it is.
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Training Computers, Helping Humans
May 03, 2017 02:10 PM
A trio of BYU profs plans to use top NSF award to revolutionize digital capabilities
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