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BYU engineers create Batman-like device for Air Force competition
The Dark Knight uses some pretty cool technology. A fan favorite is a gun that shoots a grappling hook, with a line attached. Once secured, the line pulls Batman straight up into the sky.
Some BYU engineering students are using this Batman device as inspiration for a Capstone project.
Science and faith discussion evolving to a place of harmony
As a young boy, Dixon Woodbury remembers catching giant bugs in the Seattle woods with his friends, eagerly bringing them home so his mother could tell him what they were, what they ate and what ate them. Growing up with an entomologist mother and a physiologist father, Woodbury peppered them with...
BYU professor's critique of climate change model contributes to journal editor's resignation
Mormon Life says: The discredited paper seems to have been a big deal in the climate change debate.
A BYU professor's criticism, along with other critiques of a climate change model published in a scientific journal, sparked a national controversy that led the journal's editor-in-chief to resign. ...
LDS patriarch pens evolution book
Mormon Life says: The man discussed was Mormonism's first trained evolutionary geneticist. He passed away last year.
Howard Stutz had the most varied life of any man I’ve ever known. A Golden Gloves boxing champ, coach, high school teacher and principal, member of General Patton’s Third Army in World War II,...
Scientists still searching for 'God particle'
Mormon Life says: I didn't realize this was being searched for anywhere outside of Angels and Demons . . .
Creation is at the center of religion, and it is also at the center of a search, not for God, but for the "God particle." In April rumors began that the $10-billion Large Hadron Collider near...
Scientists want to have more children, study shows
Mormon Life says: I've always thought of scientists as generally in favor of so-called "population control." It doesn't necessarily seem that way.
A new study shows that scientists at the nation's top 20 research programs wish they could have had more children. Elaine Ecklund and Anne Lincoln, sociologists from Rice University and Southern...
Shuttle launches BYU student-designed circuit into space
When the shuttle Endeavor launched Monday morning there was a little bit of BYU on board. A BYU research team designed a highly specialized type of circuit that could improve the reliability of current NASA technology. The launch attracted extra attention because it’s the second-to-last shuttle...
Space Religion: Mormonism and the final frontier
You can argue that religion is just another childish thing that an interplanetary species should leave behind. But we seem rather attached to our gods and goddesses, so it seems just as likely that we'll take religion into space with us. Which brings us to Mormonism.I previously blogged about...
Church launches second solar-powered meetinghouse
The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints unveiled its first-ever solar-powered meetinghouse in the Northern Hemisphere a year ago in Farmington, Utah. The building earned Silver LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) certification for implementing elements of “green” design. ...
LDS apostles sought truth in science and religion
Elders James E. Talmage and John A. Widtsoe, two LDS apostles, knew a thing or two about science. Before they were both ordained as special witnesses in The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Elder Widtsoe was a chemist and Elder Talmage was a geologist. Both men were considered...
Curiosity and faith fueled Henry Eyring
Imagine you're a Mormon scientist invited to an apostle's office to discuss disagreements in science and religion. It happened in 1955 when world-famous chemist Henry Eyring met with Elder Joseph Fielding Smith, who later became the 10th president of the LDS Church. They talked for about an...
LDS scientist learns by study and by faith
Some say that religion and science are polar opposites. But to Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, that is not true. Bradshaw, a senior research scientist at the Florida Institute for Human and Machine Cognition and a Mormon bishop in Pace, Fla., has found that his testimony has grown as much through service as...
Astronomer has faith in science and religion
As an astronomer, J. Ward Moody is not unfamiliar with having faith in the unknown. As a former LDS bishop, he is not unfamiliar with that either. “All of us will have faith,” he said. “The only choice we have is where we put it. Faith is the source of all progress in this world." Moody, a BYU...
Scientist alleges religious discrimination cost him his job
An astronomer argues that his Christian faith and his peers' belief that he is an evolution skeptic kept him from getting a prestigious job as the director of a new student observatory at the University of Kentucky. Martin Gaskell quickly rose to the top of a list of applicants being considered...
SPONSORED: Surgeon refutes evolution in new book
Edmund Dombrowski, a graduate of UCLA and Mayo Clinic-trained surgeon, has written The Intelligent Design of Man as a resource for people wishing to resolve questions of evolution and intelligent design. Dr. Dombrowski was one of the first people to recognize and develop a treatment for lumbar...
