Banning lead in gas worked. The proof is in our hair

Documenting a 100-fold decrease in lead concentrations

Traveling with Gulliver: Mushroom that makes people hallucinate dozens of tiny humans

Mushroom inducement of Lilliputian visions studied by U biology grad student at the U

Great Salt Lake and the oldest stories of life

Uncovering nematodes living inside microbialites

Only cowbirds sing the watery blues

A biologist, a physicist and a psychologist walk into a lab …

How scholarships translate to student excellence

Biology majors Nathan Patchen and Isabella Scalise know a thing or two about the value of a scholarship

Brain cells that drive — and prevent — anxiety

One group of cells called microglia amps up anxiety response, while another quiets them

SRI Streams in Museum Research

Curious U undergraduates found in the Natural Museum of Utah

Biologist Jamie Gagnon is a 2025 U Presidential Scholar

SRI Stories: Tiny Subjects, Mitey Impacts

Plant-herbivore biologist Richard Clark studies minuscule creatures with a big impact

David Goldenberg: Bridging Physics and Biology

Understanding one of biology’s most fundamental mysteries: how proteins fold