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Author Brian Switek held up the skull of a hyena and asked the attendees to identify the unique features.  (Kelly Watkins / The Signpost)

‘Cats get a peek into ‘The Secret Life of Bone’

Ashlynd Greenwood March 29, 2019

The Weber State University community was invited to learn about their evolutionary origins on March 28 with the 206 bones of Brian Switek. Switek is the author of several critically acclaimed books about...

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Environmental historian comes to Weber to discuss coyote evolution

Ana Lichfield September 19, 2018

New York Times Bestselling author and environmental historian, Dr. Dan Flores, will educate audiences on the 5-million-year-old epic story of the coyote at the Alumni Center Garden Room on Sept. 19 at...

Pāhoehoe and Aa flows at Hawaii provide a small-scale model of the kind of massive floods associated with exponentially larger, more violent eruptions that would have led to cataclysmic changes in the environment that wiped out the majority of life on Earth. (Source: Wikimedia Commons)

I think I remember the end of the world

Cole Eckhardt March 2, 2017

I spend an inordinate amount of time thinking about the apocalypse, and I'm starting to think it's genetic. Humans have been imagining creative renditions of the end of the world for thousands of years. Christianity,...

Research has found a link between brain shape and personality. (Source: Pixabay)

Science Weekly: Brain shape linked to personality traits

Kellie Plumhof February 21, 2017

Brain shape might play a role in behavior and mental health disorders, according to new research from a group of researchers from the United States, United Kingdom and Italy.Antonio Terracciano, professor...

Science Weekly: One step forward, one step back

Chris Sessions October 13, 2015

Most of us have marveled at the giraffe, taking the time to admire the reach of its neck, which marks it as one of the strangest and most unique looking animals in the modern world. And most of us, at...

Why you mod my rex, bro?

June 22, 2015

Jurassic World: Dinosaurs alive and on view for amusement, perfectly reconstructed ancient DNA and Chris Pratt as the Ceasar Milan of Velociraptors. I can watch CGI dinosaurs eat irritating movie characters...

Science Weekly: Evolution of the ribosome revealed

July 7, 2014

The Georgia Institute of Technology has discovered how the ribosome originated and evolved. By digitally uncovering each layer of ribosomes in the modern day, scientists have been able to uncover some...

‘Cosmos’ reignites religious debate

March 25, 2014

“The Cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be,” said renowned scientist Carl Sagan when introducing the critically acclaimed 13-part television series “Cosmos: A Personal Voyage,”...

Adam vs. atom: Nye, Ham debate science and creationism

February 9, 2014

By David Prete Armed with his television personality and famous bow tie, award-winning science educator Bill Nye, better known as the Science Guy, faced off on Tuesday against young-Earth creationist...

Study shows human intelligence decreasing

December 1, 2012

According to a new study published in Trends in Genetics Journal, humans are progressively becoming less intelligent. Despite modern technology and the innovative breakthroughs in science, Stanford geneticist...

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