“Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink,” cries out the ancient mariner in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s epic poem. Steeped in irony as with all elements, too little or too much water spells disaster. Water is essential for life yet has the power to destroy.
Jan 24, 2013
Nov 15, 2012
USU scientist Jack Schmidt, chief of the USGS Grand Canyon Monitoring and Research Center, is among the featured speakers in USU Science Unwrapped’s spring 2013 public outreach series, which will focus on water issues.
Nov 2, 2012
“Black Holes!” is the topic for Utah State University’s Science Unwrapped Friday, Nov. 2. Featured speaker is astrophysicist Pablo Laguna, who unlocks some of the mysteries surrounding these daunting and powerful cosmic phenomena.
Science Questions features tonight's Science Unwrapped guest, astrophysicist Pablo Laguna. Dr. Laguna is also a numerical relativist. He uses super computers to model black holes and gravitational waves.
Oct 31, 2012
Our sun, if it were to reach the end of its life, go supernova, and collapse in on itself, could form a dense, sucking black hole with a diameter about the size of Logan.
Oct 29, 2012
“Black Holes!” is the topic for Utah State University’s Science Unwrapped Friday, Nov. 2. Featured speaker is astrophysicist Pablo Laguna, who unlocks some of the mysteries surrounding these daunting and powerful cosmic phenomena.
Oct 5, 2012
The science of dinosaurs is the topic at USU's Science Unwrapped lecture series tonight.
Today on the program, Sheri Quinn talks to the guest speaker, paleontologist Dr. Kenneth Carpenter about dinosaur behavior and biology.
Oct 4, 2012
"My parents have been very supportive and provided the best of the sciences and the arts for me," Neal Hengge said. "Whether it’s attending a Science Unwrapped activity or seeing a play at the Caine Lyric Theatre or attending the opera, it’s all contributed to my being the person I am today."
Oct 3, 2012
What explains our fascination with dinosaurs? Is it their size? Or is it our endless curiosity with how these “terrible lizards” – a rough translation of the word “dinosaurs” coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 – ultimately met their demise?
Oct 1, 2012
What explains our fascination with dinosaurs? Is it their size? Or is it our endless curiosity with how these "terrible lizards" — a rough translation of the word "dinosaurs" coined by Sir Richard Owen in 1842 — ultimately met their demise?
