Does outdoor air pollution affect indoor air quality? Depends on buildings’ HVAC
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Using campus itself as a lab, researchers find wildfire smoke can sneak inside if efficient ‘air-side economizers’ are in use
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As climate warms, migratory songbirds’ fall feather molt advances by a day every year
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U biologists tap data from 22,000 songbirds captured at Rio Mesa to reveal changes in how they replace their feathers
Read MoreThe West’s spring runoff is older than you think
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U hydrologists show most streamflow out of mountains is old snowmelt on a multi-year underground journey.
Read MoreMajor dust-up for water in the Colorado River
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Using 23 years of satellite data, hydrologists reveal how dust-darkened snow hastens runoff, reshaping water future for Southwest.
Read MoreDust in the Wind: How cities alter natural airborne particles
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Salt Lake’s locally sourced dust pollution carries far more hazardous elements than natural dust blown in from the Great Basin.
Read MoreWhose air quality are we monitoring?
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U.S. EPA air quality monitors are disproportionally located in predominately white neighborhoods, leaving marginalized communities at risk of pollution exposure.
Read MoreMisha Lived in Zoos, but the Elephant’s Tooth Enamel Helps Reconstruct Wildlife Migrations
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U geologists show how strontium isotopes found in teeth reveal where large plant-eating animals have roamed.
Read MoreAn Emissions Tale of Two Cities: Salt Lake vs. Los Angeles
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Research shows carbon monoxide emissions on Salt Lake City freeways worsened while they went down in Southern California.
Read More‘Brand new physics’ for next generation spintronics
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Physicists discover a unique quantum behavior that offers a new way to manipulate electron-spin and magnetization to push forward cutting-edge spintronic technologies, like computing that mimics the human brain.
Read MoreSediment Stories
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Unraveling the changing landscape on Utah’s Colorado and San Juan rivers and the shrinking Lake Powell.
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