Top 10 BYU News stories of 2018
Dec 20, 2018
The most-read BYU News of the year include Star Wars-inspired research, advice for parents, a new chocolate milk flavor and the DNA of a 7’6” basketball player.
Good vs. Evil: How heroes and villains affect the food you buy
Jan 10, 2019
Research led by professor Tamara Masters finds people are willing to pay more for vice foods — think ice cream, cookies, and other unhealthy snacks — when a hero is used in the packaging.
BYU Devotional: Find your spiritual gifts, Know who you are
Jan 8, 2019
President Kevin J Worthen and Sister Peggy S. Worthen welcomed students back to campus with the first devotional of the semester. They spoke about spiritual gifts and eternal identities.
‘A way cool way to be’: BYU team gains insights into understudied group of children with autism
Jan 2, 2019
In the first study of its kind, a team of researchers was able to perform functional MRIs of a group of children with autism whose IQs averaged 54. The scans offer a glimpse into what’s happening in their brains.
BYU study: Cancer passing heart disease as leading cause of death in more and more states
Dec 18, 2018
Heart disease has been the leading cause of death in the United States for more than a century, ever since the early 1900s when it displaced acute diseases for the distinction. Now a growing number of states are crowning a new leading cause of death: cancer.
Does political party trump ideology?
Dec 18, 2018
With party and ideology so closely intertwined, the question has in the past been nearly impossible to pin down, but a BYU duo just published a study showing that a person’s policy positions are quite malleable when told that leaders of their political party support a different position.