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Extra love and support doesn’t make up for being a helicopter parent

It’s time for helicopter parents to land and stay grounded. New research by professors at Brigham Young University revealed that parental warmth cannot neutralize the consequences of helicopter...

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Parents’ comparisons make siblings different

They grow up in the same home, eat the same food, share the same genes (and sometimes the same jeans), but somehow siblings are often no more similar than complete strangers. A new study from BYU found...

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Small dams: Look harmless, can be fatal

Five years ago this summer, a couple drowned in Utah’s Jordan River when their kayak capsized going over a small drop in the streambed near Murray. While the drop-off at that location creates a...

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The World’s Premier Trade Show for Video Games loves game from BYU

While the BYU Center for Animation is accustomed to being in the national spotlight, it’s usually for student-made animated shorts, not for award-winning video games. But a team of students is helping...

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High blood pressure associated with lower risk for Alzheimer’s

A study coauthored by a BYU professor and a BYU undergraduate suggests that people with a genetic predisposition to high blood pressure have a lower risk for Alzheimer’s disease. However, authors...

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What You Can Expect at BYU Religious Freedom Conference

From state houses and houses of worship to social media and the United States Supreme Court, discussions surrounding religious freedom are popping up everywhere. Even if you know where you stand on the...

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Who wore it best? BYU professor is the expert on Bible and Book of Mormon...

Resident clothing history expert at BYU, theatre and media arts professor Rory Scanlon, has spent more than 15 years pouring through archeological and anthropological records to discover what people...

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The sound of music, according to physicists

Joshua Bodon is sick of hearing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow.” More specifically, he’s sick of hearing one 25-second clip of the song repeated more than 550 times. For almost two years, this physics...

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Setting the odds for those with MS

Both the doctors who treat multiple sclerosis and the people who experience it agree that the disease is highly unpredictable. While that remains true for the disease in general, a new study introduces...

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Worldwide violinist phenom Lindsey Stirling receives her BYU degree

Violinist superstar Lindsey Stirling has nearly 7 million YouTube subscribers, more than 3 million Facebook fans and another half a million Twitter followers. Her music videos on YouTube have been...

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Student goes after MRSA after it costs father his leg

MRSA is bad news. If you’ve never heard of it, here’s what you need to know: It’s pronounced MER-suh, it’s a nasty bacterial infection and it can cause serious disease and death. Senior molecular...

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BYU hits best mark in one U.S. News ranking, stays high in others

Year in and year out, BYU ranks in the top tier of national universities, according to U.S. News & World Report. This year is no different, with BYU coming in at No. 66 among the roughly 300 listed...

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Wave of returning missionaries brings BYU enrollment back up

Newly released Fall 2015 enrollment numbers show BYU’s overall enrollment is returning to levels seen previous to the missionary-age-change announcement. Overall daytime enrollment—including...

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BYU science addressing global environmental problem

Along the northern edge of the Gulf of Mexico is a 6,000-square mile dead zone of oxygen-depleted water filled with dead plants, dead fish and a damaged ecosystem. Dead zones like this occur when...

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BYU technology tackles climate change by freezing carbon

This August, President Obama announced an ambitious plan to reduce carbon dioxide emissions by 32 percent by 2030. BYU professor Larry Baxter is developing a technology that can actually do it....

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BYU engineers and scientists take on global health threat

BYU is a major part of a collaborative team which has just kicked off a massive multidisciplinary effort to combat a threat to global health: the rising prevalence of bacteria that can’t be treated by...

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BYU Vocal Point Releases First Christmas CD

Brigham Young University’s nine-man a cappella group, BYU Vocal Point, released an album dedicated to Christmas songs on Friday, Oct. 9, during the BYU Homecoming festivities. The album, He Is Born,...

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When Your Spouse is Your Frenemy

We know that a happy marriage is good for your health and a hostile marriage is not, but what about all the couples in between? A new study in Annals of Behavioral Medicine finds that couples in...

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Study: Count your bites; count down the pounds

Forget counting calories. The next new diet trend could be as simple as counting bites. A new study from BYU health science researchers found people who counted bites over a month’s time lost roughly...

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40 Years of “Come, Come Ye Saints”: BYU Centennial Bells Celebrates Anniversary

As Don Cook, a BYU professor, ascends the 110 metal stairs within the Centennial Carillon Tower on campus, he prepares to play for his audience: everyone in Provo. There are four octaves of notes at...

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