Max McDermott
Science ReporterMax is a neuroscientist and science reporter. He researches a protein receptor and its effect on opioid drugs in the brain. He reports on opioids, space and Great Salt Lake. Like Uncle Iroh, he believes that the cure for all ailments is more hot tea. He is also an avid jigsaw puzzler.
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The authors of "lake words," a small book on Great Salt Lake, are calling on the public for original submissions for "lake words vol. ii," set to be released sometime this summer. -
The artificial intelligence bot ChatGPT can do more than write funny poems. It’s capable of writing a college length essay on almost any prompt you give it, making it a potentially powerful tool for plagiarisim.
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Set in a not-too-distant future, the Pod Generation, follows a couple as they decide to forgo natural child gestation, to instead grow their baby ex utero, in a pod.
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Researchers at Utah State University have found a new CRISPR system with promising characteristics for medicine.
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A boat submerged for decades and lost to the record books was uncovered last month by shrinking water levels in Great Salt Lake.
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Utah State University geologists say Australia’s K’gari Island formed during a time of rapid glacier melting, a process that eventually led to the formation of one of the world’s natural wonders: the Great Barrier Reef.
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Last week, Utah State University hosted the 47th annual National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Climate Diagnostics & Prediction Workshop. PhD student Grace Affram in USU's Plant, Soils & Climate department said, "We thought it was the increase in temperature, because we all know global warming and greenhouse gases increase temperature. We later realized that temperature could only be a temporary, secondary driver."
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This year's Hansen Life Sciences retreat was kicked off at Utah State University with a keynote lecture by Professor Sheena D'Arcy of the University of Texas at Dallas. D'arcy spoke about her research on the mysterious ways DNA is folded and unfolded.
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Great Salt Lake has recently made headlines for increasing salinity and the threat that poses to the lake’s brine shrimp population. The Great Salt Lake Causeway seperates saltier North water from less salty South water. Researchers at Utah State University are studying the only opening in the North-South divide: the West Crack Breach.
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Twenty new designs for the Utah state flag are currently displayed at the Capitol in Salt Lake City, the courthouse in Logan, and SUU's campus in Cedar City. Utahns can vote on the designs at flag.utah.gov until October 3rd.
