Science

Many people have noticed the reddish-pink glow of mountaintops on winter evenings. This is known as alpenglow - a natural phenomenon that has to do with how we perceive visible light. But to understand why we experience alpenglow, we must first know why we see any light.

The idea is to make sure that students know their potential career options in science. And if they go that route, they have a leg up.

Researchers usually study sedimentary formations millions of years old. Lake Powell offers an opportunity to look at deposits just a few decades old.

A new research paper has found that a large number of bald and golden eagles have chronic to toxic levels of lead in their system. These levels have a potential to decrease population.

The College of Arts and Sciences hired a new dean last June. Before Dean Camellia Moses Okpodu came to the University Wyoming (UW), she was the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences at Xavier University of Louisiana. She's trained as a plant physiologist. Due to restructuring, the UW College of Arts and Sciences is projected to become the College of Arts, Humanities, and Social Sciences. Wyoming Public Radio's Ivy Engel sat down with Dean Okpodu to talk about her deanship thus far and the future of the college.

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Hafele-Keating experiment, a test of Einstein's theory of general relativity. It turns out that Joseph Hafele, the physicist that worked on the experiment, is a former Laramie resident. Wyoming Public Radio's Adlynn Jamaludin reports.

The family tree of living things has a new branch - one whose members can be found in some of Yellowstone's hot springs. It's been named Brockarchaeota, and it's part of a broad category known as a phylum. Finding a new phylum is a big deal because it doesn't happen very often.

This summer, the University of Wyoming will host the Teton STEM Academy, a science camp for high school students. The camp is free of charge and will be…

The University of Wyoming will host a virtual Women in STEM conference for junior and high school students across the state on May 18.The event has been…

Communicating science is important, especially when it saves lives like in the COVID-19 pandemic. But it's difficult to do when words mean different…