Peter Rosen

Pathmaker program aims to change the face of medicine

Many minorities are seriously underrepresented in the medical field, and a program at the Huntsman Cancer Institute aims to help change that.
12 months ago

Utah man creates company devoted to flywheel energy storage

What weighs as much as a Toyota Corolla, spins at thousands of rotations per minute, and, a Utah entrepreneur hopes, might one day live in your backyard and store power to run your home? It’s called flywheel energy storage.
12 months ago

Competitive speed puzzling boosts adrenaline for participants

Most people find jigsaw puzzles a peaceful, relaxing activity, but speed puzzlers do not.
1 year ago

The man who walked backward

Parkinson's Disease, now perhaps more prevalent than once thought, is a disease that often hides in plain sight, and KSL's Peter Rosen knows that better than anyone.
1 year ago

Utah professor’s team may have figured out why we lost our fur coats

Scientists at the University of Utah and the University of Pittsburgh think they know the genes that made us lose our fur coats.
1 year ago

Utah writer-blogger finds baking bread gives whole-life nourishment, healing

When a Salt Lake woman needed help with physical and mental rehabilitation after a life-threatening illness, she turned to baking bread.
1 year ago

Trying to leave no carbon footprints

Making a new year’s resolution to shrink your carbon footprint in 2023? According to two people who’ve kept track of their contributions to greenhouse gases, you can make it smaller without spending more money.
1 year ago

Losing weight: Setting the wheels in motion

When it comes to shedding pounds, it’s not just about the patient. It’s usually a family affair.
1 year ago

Utah woman starts nonprofit to prevent food waste

It’s estimated Americans will throw out more than 200 million pounds of perfectly good turkey meat this year, most of it after Thanksgiving. One woman is trying to do something with that food waste.
1 year ago

Provo bookseller searches for literary treasure

Reid Moon is a treasure hunter of sorts. He figures he’s traveled the equivalent of more than one hundred times around the Earth in search of one-of-a-kind items, some, he said, cost hundreds of thousands of dollars.
1 year ago

Pandemic puts cornhole on the rise

The pandemic has changed life in many ways – it's changed where we work, how we socialize and communicate. It's also partly responsible for turning a tailgating mainstay into a professional sport.
2 years ago

Salem teenager using a T-shirt and a message to connect people impacted by suicide

A Salem teenager is connecting with other teens who’ve been impacted by anxiety, depression, and suicide - with a T-shirt.
2 years ago

Layton man built his home to be an highly energy-efficient house

Layton contractor built his own home like "a giant Yeti cooler” to help with energy-saving and cut costs.
2 years ago

Girls (and other gender identities) Rock!

This summer, some kids are going to camp to paddle canoes and explore the outdoors. 15-year-old Saerichai Baker-Rajsavong, who also goes by the names Jedi and Arson, is learning how to rock a bass line.
2 years ago

Utah’s Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital celebrates 100 years of treating kids

Intermountain Primary Children’s Hospital is used to celebrating kids’ birthdays, but this year the staff there is saying ‘happy birthday’ to the hospital itself.
2 years ago

Utah celebrates Juneteenth as state holiday

As Utah celebrates its newest state holiday, we talked to Juneteenth Festival and Holiday Committee director, Betty Sawyer,
2 years ago

For two Utahns and millions of fans, it’s definitely a laughing matter

Every day, thousands of people from across the globe turn to two Utahns for a laugh, but they’re not comedians — one is a yoga instructor and the other is a middle school teacher. They make people laugh by laughing themselves.
2 years ago

Why a greenhouse gas sounds like an oboe

You can’t hear the carbon dioxide that quietly collects in our atmosphere and heats up the earth, but if you could, it might, University of Utah assistant music professor Elisabeth Curbelo said, sound like an oboe.
2 years ago

Visualizing the Conversation about Mental Health

Southern Utah University art student Lauryn Batista wants to talk about scribbles. That’s how she visualizes the anxiety and depression she’s dealt with for the past few years.
2 years ago

Meet the editor-in-chief of ‘Kid News’

Mei, 7, wanted a job when she was 4, so her mom guided her to write her own news stories under "Kid News."
2 years ago

‘Seems like a no-brainer’: Utah woman donates kidney to friend through national registry

Not long ago, if you wanted to donate a kidney to a loved one, the odds were usually against you. You likely weren’t the right match. Now, thanks to the power of large numbers and algorithms and the National Kidney Registry, that doesn’t matter anymore.
2 years ago

Using comedy during the COVID-19 pandemic

The pandemic is no laughing matter, unless your job is to make it one. But even comics are sick and tired and say they're done with pandemic humor. Except that they're not.
2 years ago

Elderly Man Shares His Big Heart By Writing Inspiring Love Poems

Love inspires, no matter who you are or how old you are. At his job as a security guard last year, Saxon Porter made a discovery — a new poet with a lot to say about love. The writer was 88-year-old Richard Ledbetter, the guard who worked the overnight shift.
3 years ago

Group Of Utah Musicians Make ‘Singing Telegrams’ For Elderly During COVID

These have been lonely times for the elderly, many of whom are in nursing homes, locked away from family and friends. That's why a group of Utah musicians that usually tours those facilities, but can't because of the pandemic, hasn't stopped reaching out with a song. 
3 years ago