Research Story
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BYU-Created Mini Tool has Massive Potential
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?
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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Professors 3D-print First Truly Microfluidic “Lab on a Chip” Device
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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BYU Researchers Develop Method That Could Produce Stronger, More Pliable Metals
It may not be as catchy as chains and weak links, but physicists and engineers know “a material is only as strong as its weakest grain boundary.”
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Running Experts: You’ve Already Hit Your Stride
USA Track and Field consultant Iain Hunter and U.S. Olympian Jared Ward have a message for runners: Don’t mess with your stride.
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BYU Back to E3 with Nokbak
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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BYU Chemists Invent Faster and Cheaper Way to Measure Hepcidin
The peptide hormone hepcidin-25 is found in patients with chronic inflammation. It cuts off the iron supply to the blood and bone marrow and thus causes patients to become anemic, according to Dr. Richard Watt of the BYU Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry.
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Uncovering Pieces of the Universe Puzzle
Thirty years ago, J. Ward Moody was pondering the existence of dwarf galaxies far, far away.
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Hottest Known Planet Published in Nature
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
It’s not a love story. And it is.
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Modern Tech Meets Ancient Text
Computer programs interpret languages like HTML, XML, Java, PHP with no problem. But ancient handwritten text? BYU professor Bill Barrett and his team of undergraduate and graduate students are determined to create a program that will do just that—and to a large degree, they already have.
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Lab on a Chip Designed to Minimize Preterm Births
In the United States alone, a half million babies are born preterm; worldwide, the number is an estimated 15 million. Complications associated with preterm birth are the no. 1 cause of death for children under 5, and those who live often face a range of health problems.
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BYU Profs Discover Moabosaurus in Utah’s ‘Gold Mine’
Move over, honeybee and seagull: it’s time to meet Moabosaurus utahensis, Utah’s newly discovered dinosaur, whose past reveals even more about the state’s long-term history.
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Legos Don’t Stand a Chance Against Time Reversal
A crowd of 29 stands still, positioned as lookouts in various directions. A chirp punctuates the silence before being replaced by a distinct buzz. The buzzing grows louder, then abruptly drops back into silence. Twenty-eight Lego figurines shift slightly — they survive. But one unlucky companion lies on his back, toppled by an invisible force.
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Student-created Budgeting App Will Finally Save Your Budget
You’ve tried it all: spreadsheets, software, the envelope system. And despite your best efforts, it seems like every month you blow your budget.
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BYU Researchers Help Discover Massive Exoplanet
Clement Gaillard spent three or four nights a week operating BYU’s Orson Pratt Observatory telescope in the summer of 2015. On the night of June 23, the physics undergrad pointed the telescope toward a star more than a thousand light years away, recording meticulous data and hoping. Soon after, physics professor Denise Stephens and a visiting student reduced the data and looked anxiously at the plot points they had gathered. On a six-hour timeline, the dots congregated along a straight line for two hours, dipped down for two, then popped back up through the end.
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Measuring a Quintillion Photons at the Speed of Light
An individual could travel around the world more than seven times in a single second if moving at the speed of light. That’s pretty fast.
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Animation Students Create Quick, Easy-to-learn Video Game and Find Mainstream Success
Only three days after the launch of the Vanguards video game — the BYU Center for Animation students’ senior project — 1,500 people had already downloaded and played it.
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