Both spatially and financially, nuclear reactors are costly projects — especially when deterred by natural earthly causes. In particular, nuclear infrastructure can easily be disrupted by seismic activity.…
Read more Engineer launches quest to address dangerous threat at nuclear power plants: ‘Revolutionize the design’In the weeks after she caught COVID, in May 2022, Lauren Shoemaker couldn’t wait to return to her usual routine of skiing, backpacking, and pregaming her family’s eight-mile…
Read more ‘If Exercise Could Cure This, I Would Have Been Cured So Quickly’Newswise — Efforts to improve sage grouse habitat through conventional management practices may be ineffective — and even counterproductive — according to research by University of Wyoming and…
Read more Study raises doubts about the effectiveness of controlling sagebrush to protect sage grouse.While enrollment is down at the nation’s public colleges, state funding for higher ed is up — and students have been footing less of the bill for their…
Read more State Support for Higher Ed Continues to Rise. Yet Public Colleges Still Face Headwinds.Newswise — The U.S. federal government’s management of wild horses is doomed to fail without fundamental changes in policy and the law, according to a new paper led…
Read more Single Approach to Wild Horse Management UrgedNewswise — University of Wyoming researchers’ study of how microscopic creatures called tardigrades survive extreme conditions has led to a major breakthrough that could eventually make life-saving treatments…
Read more Scientists use tardigrade proteins for human health breakthroughNewswise — Previous studies have determined that astronauts can judge inverted movements better than people on Earth due to the astronauts’ unique visuomotor experience with inverted movements in…
Read more Inverted Dancers Have More Acute Visuomotor PerceptionNewswise — Scientists researching forest carnivores such as martens, foxes and coyotes spend hours clambering through rugged terrain, sometimes in deep snow, placing and baiting camera traps to…
Read more NASA Laser Project Benefits Animal Researchers, UW Scientists Show
