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Study Links Altitude to Suicide Risk

(Sept. 15) -- The towering, majestic mountain regions of the Western United States are hiding a deadly secret: suicides. At least according to a new research paper in this week's American Journal of Psychiatry, which concludes that the remarkably high suicide rates in America's most mountainous regions are caused -- in...

Soda Could Help Liquid Sleuths Solve Cold Cases

(July 7) -- Scientists who can precisely measure hydrogen and oxygen isotopes in water and other beverages can tell where a dead woman spent the last two years of her life, whether expensive wine is worth the price and where the milk sold in fast-food stores came from. These are just some of the skills that biologists,...

Who Can Drive Safely While on Phone? 'Supertaskers'

(April 3) -- It's become a common refrain in our modern, rampantly multitasking era: Driving while using a cell phone is a big no-no, a practice so dangerous it deserves to be outlawed, according to the increasingly urgent calls of legislators and ordinary citizens. Yet for a small minority of people, simultaneously...

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The University of Utah (also referred to as The U, the U of U or Utah) is a public, coeducational research university in Salt Lake City, Utah, United States.

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