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BYU-Created Mini Tool has Massive Potential

By BYU News
August 31, 2017 10:21 AM
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.
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Professors 3D-print First Truly Microfluidic “Lab on a Chip” Device

By BYU News
August 09, 2017 10:27 AM
Researchers at BYU are the first to 3D-print a viable microfluidic device small enough to be effective at a scale much less than 100 micrometers. Microfluidic devices are tiny chips that can sort out disease biomarkers, cells and other small structures in samples like blood by using microscopic channels incorporated into the devices.
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How Eating Less Can Slow the Aging Process

By BYU News
February 16, 2017 10:44 AM
There’s a multi-billion-dollar industry devoted to products that fight signs of aging, but moisturizers only go skin deep. Aging occurs deeper — at a cellular level — and scientists have found that eating less can slow this cellular process.
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BYU Researchers Shrink Device for Detecting Toxins in Liquids, Boost Sensitivity

By BYU News
March 24, 2016 10:54 AM
A team of researchers at BYU have designed a portable device capable of detecting toxic or harmful substances in water.
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BYU Mathematics Professor Receives National “Hall of Fame” Award

By BYU News
February 05, 2016 11:01 AM
Dr. Tyler Jarvis, professor and former department chair in the BYU Department of Mathematics, recently received the Deborah and Franklin Tepper Haimo Award presented by the Mathematical Association of America. He was presented the award at the Joint Mathematics Meeting of the Mathematical Association of America and the American Mathematical Society in early January.
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Sea Sponges and Synthesis

By BYU News
January 11, 2016 10:52 AM
Chemistry professor Steven Castle was initially drawn to organic chemistry because of chemists’ ability to synthesize things that don’t exist in nature—which is exactly what his latest research focuses on.
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Death in the Trek: A Study of Mormon Pioneer Mortality

By BYU News
July 15, 2014 04:40 PM
The final stanza of the Mormon pioneer anthem “Come, Come Ye Saints” directly confronts the prospect of dying on the trail: “And should we die, before our journey’s through…”
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BYU Wins Big at Student Emmys and Student Academy Awards

By BYU News
June 09, 2014 01:27 PM
For more than a decade now, you could say that the BYU Center for Animation has “owned” the animation category at the College Television Awards, commonly called the “student Emmys.”
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Opening Planetarium Learning to the Deaf

By BYU News
May 28, 2014 02:32 PM
Ordinarily, deaf students are left in the dark when they visit a planetarium.
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