UnDisciplined

The "project of physics" will never be complete, but some scientists in the 19th century thought there was little left to explore. Thankfully, that wasn't the case.

Sometime in the next few years, the water level in Lake Powell may drop so low that it will be impossible for the lake’s dam to continue producing electricity.

What Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva does now about the Amazon may impact every person on this planet.

Plutarch's work continues to find relevance today on pretty much every issue under the sun.

Scholars Jason Gilmore and Charles Rowling have argued that Trump has taken American exceptionalism and turned it on its head.

Many of us will be having the experience of not only outliving our parents, but growing to ages they never saw, and living those years without their examples.

A team of researchers noticed that as you go south along the Rockies, the number of black coated wolves will increase. But what does this have to do with the deadly canine distemper disease?

Many of Joseph Smith's wives have been lost to history due to early secrecy and reluctance to discuss these marriages. Historian Todd Compton is trying to change that.

We’re doing a deep dive on dogs in art, and what that relationship means about dogs and humans alike.

For veterans post traumatic stress is real, but so is post traumatic growth.

We're talking to the researchers who tracked European eels to solve 100 year mystery.

Some parts of the Pando tree forest are thriving, others are nearly gone. And it's not clear what could or should be done to save it.

Mimicry is an evolutionary survival tactic in which multiple species share a similar appearance in order to signal to predators that they should be left alone.

A study suggests the Spinosaurus may have been subaqueous foragers, which means they pursued prey underwater.

A new study suggests that rattlesnakes evolved to reach into a toolbox that already has everything they need to adapt, overcome, and eat well.

Researchers are trying to better understand what makes something more likely to be successful once it arrives in a new habitat through the lens of an native New Zealand mud snail.

Damming tropical rivers not only drowns wildlife and lowland habitats, it turns ridge top forests into islands, isolating animal populations that need connections between their habitats to survive and flourish.

We explore a cautionary tale about our beloved Great Salt Lake with insights from a researcher at Utah State University who visited Lake Aculeo in Chile.

Archaeologists have developed new techniques to reconstruct the diet of the Ancestral Pueblo people in the southwestern United States.

A team of wetland researchers at Utah State University are extending the scientifically sound information to engage land managers and policymakers, bringing knowledge the importance of wetlands to arenas beyond academia.

An exciting new paper has documented the biology and evolutionary history behind blue food, revealing the complex ways that plants have evolved their distinctive colors.

A recent study suggests that fire refugia – the green islands of live trees that remain after forest fires – can enhance forest regeneration.

A breakthrough approach in marine acoustics that uses existing systems of underwater fiber optics now allows scientists to eavesdrop on whales. This innovative approach may reveal new insights about these beautiful and awe-inspiring animals.

A new study used virtual imaging techniques to lead to accurately diagnosing the many cases when healing fractures of bones fail to fuse.

A global study found that children and young adults are distraught, afraid, sad, angry and ashamed about what is happening to our global climate. The study's leaders say that's a sign of nothing short of immense trauma.