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Sixteen Miles Out/UnsplashDan McClellan loves the Bible. He doesn’t always love what it says. But he works hard not to try to mold it into something that he wants it to be — to meet it, he says, on its own terms. Doing anything else would be a step down a path toward allowing his decisions to be guided by dogma — an experience that his family knows all too well.This is part two of a two-part discussion with Biblical scholar Dan McClellan. -
Dan McClellan loves the Bible. He doesn’t always love what it says. But he works hard not to try to mold it into something that he wants it to be — to meet it, he says, on its own terms. Doing anything else would be a step down a path toward allowing his decisions to be guided by dogma — an experience that his family knows all too well.This is part two of a two-part discussion with Biblical scholar Dan McClellan.
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Spring is a critical time for reproduction in many animals, the Utah Department of Wildlife Resources uses that time to conduct their annual spring surveys of lekking sage-grouse. -
On the night of May 3, a green fireball illuminated the skies over Cache Valley. Jason Trump, a NASA solar system ambassador, says it's no cause for concern. -
As diurnal creatures, humans often miss out on the natural world at night. And many of us have a natural urge to see the animals that come out at night as inherently worse, scarier, more disgusting, or more dangerous than their daytime counterparts. But if we set aside our distrust of what comes out at night, we’ll find ourselves stunned by what night time nature has to offer. And in his new book, that’s exactly what Charles Hood does. -
As diurnal creatures, humans often miss out on the natural world at night. And many of us have a natural urge to see the animals that come out at night as inherently worse, scarier, more disgusting, or more dangerous than their daytime counterparts. But if we set aside our distrust of what comes out at night, we’ll find ourselves stunned by what night time nature has to offer. And in his new book, that’s exactly what Charles Hood does. -
Plants use toxic chemicals to protect themselves from insects, herbivores, and pathogens. But they also need to attract animals to carry their seeds. Here's how researchers are exploring those needs. -
What is life? However you answer that question, there is a good chance that it’s limited in some way by something that recent research has shown is not actually a limit. What living things can breathe, how they derive energy, how long they can live, and even whether they must die are all being challenged by what we’re learning from microorganisms. In her new book, “Intraterrestrials,” Karen Lloyd tells the story of exploring those limits among the strangest species on our planet. -
What is life? However you answer that question, there is a good chance that it’s limited in some way by something that recent research has shown is not actually a limit. What living things can breathe, how they derive energy, how long they can live, and even whether they must die are all being challenged by what we’re learning from microorganisms. In her new book, “Intraterrestrials,” Karen Lloyd tells the story of exploring those limits among the strangest species on our planet.
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Utah State University researchers are collaborating with other institutions to solve the ecological mysteries of seed dispersal in tropical ecosystems. -
A century of research on Barro Colorado Island has contributed to our understanding of forest ecology. Researchers from Utah State University and the University of Utah rely on the island for their plant research. -
The idea that social groups can impact evolutionary success has been debated since Darwin first suggested it, over 150 years ago. A marmot research project explores this evolutionary question.
