University of Utah News

As the world celebrates Pi Day on Friday, a movement is growing that claims pi--the ratio of a circle's diameter to its circumference--is wrong.

The Deseret News assembled a panel to review the many benefits of theater for young audiences in recognition of the World Day of Theatre for Children and Young People.

Finalist, Community Champion category: Priya Sanger, Corporate Counsel, Products and Payments, Google Inc. Birthplace: Hyderabad, India Education: B.A., Latin/classics, Smith College; J.D., University of Utah.

The National Science Foundation has awarded Clemson University a $5.3 million grant to enable a national network of Advanced Cyberinfrastructure Research and Education Facilitators to broaden the impact of advanced computing resources at campuses across the country.

A unique method to collect rain water samples during Hurricane Sandy has revealed the storm's chemical "signature" with a new level of detail.

Some people call Ken Golden the "Indiana Jones" of mathematics due to his frequent excursions to remote, harsh parts of the world.

With the Legislature wrapping up, most Utahns might be burned-out on politics, but now - more than ever - is the time to plan for your political future.

The climate 25,000 years ago was cold, very cold. It was the height of the last ice age, and survival required desperate measures -- especially from those in Eurasia, where food and wood fuel ran low.

SALT LAKE CITY, March 12, 2014 - University of Utah chemists discovered how vibrations in chemical bonds can be used to predict chemical reactions and thus design better catalysts to speed reactions that make medicines, industrial products and new materials.

The dancers' movements in "Adjacent Parts: For Mrs. A" were sometimes mechanical, sometimes explosive.

There is one, and only one, answer to America's burgeoning national debt, now in the many trillions of dollars and seemingly impossible to repay.

Women who plan to run for public office this year can get a boost this weekend at a free event.

Nicholas Stanfill hoped to graduate with his classmates in May of this year, but after suffering from a spontaneous brain hemorrhage in July 2013 that left him with short-term memory loss, that goal may not be met.

University of Utah trustees on Tuesday approved a tuition increase of up to 5.9 percent for next school year, a hike that would cost a full-time, in-state student another $438 a year.

The storm smash-up that morphed Hurricane Sandy into a hybrid weather monster left a chemical trail that scientists have decoded with the help of crowdsourced water samples.

As with many pairs of technologies, there are advantages and disadvantages to electronics and fiber optics, as optics can achieve great bandwidths but electronics can be produce at very small scales.

The missing Malaysia Airlines flight has highlighted a worldwide problem that may or may not have to do with the disappearance of the aircraft: stolen passports.

Apple CarPlay may seem like a boon to people who love their iPhones as much as their cars , but it's already drawing criticism from safety advocates.

Good news for lifelong exercisers: Along with its salutary effects on the heart, weight, and other facets of health, physical activity also helps to regenerate muscle mass, which tends to diminish as people age.

Using an inexpensive inkjet printer, University of Utah electrical engineers produced microscopic structures that use light in metals to carry information.