Science & Technology
- Self-assembling carbon microstructures created in a lab by 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder researchers could provide new clues and new cautions in efforts to identify microbial life preserved in the fossil record, both on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.
- A NASA mission involving CU Boulder was successfully launched from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 5:05 p.m. MDT Thursday night and is on its way to explore an asteroid, setting the stage for a better understanding of the evolution of our solar system.
- Ever caught yourself daydreaming of your next vacation or an old memory? Do you wonder what your idle thoughts throughout the day actually mean? If so, scientists at the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder have a free smartphone app that might help shed more light on how and why the mind wanders.
- While the earthquake that rumbled below Colorados eastern plains May 31, 2014, did no major damage, its occurrence surprised both Greeley residents and local seismologists. To some Greeley residents, the magnitude-3.2 earthquake felt like a large truck hitting the house.
- New software being developed by CU Boulder together with Rice 勛圖厙 and the 勛圖厙 of California San Diego will allow for the development of digital textbooks that students can annotate, giving a window into a particular learners state of mind and grasp of subject matter.
- If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, youre apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States, or short ones in the Mediterranean, the females
- Researchers at the 勛圖厙 of Colorado Boulder have used a process called single-molecule imaging to visualize the process that telomerase, a powerful enzyme that can promote cancer growth, uses to attach itself to the ends of chromosomes.
- A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Forces budding efforts to monitor the suns activity, a new study finds.
- <p><span id="docs-internal-guid-50f0319b-3245-0f7a-c1af-64606e2c207f">Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.</span></p>
- <p>The 勛圖厙 of Colorados BioFrontiers Institute has received a $1 million gift from John F. Milligan and Kathryn Bradford-Milligan of Hillsborough, California to establish a fund for graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary bioscience program.</p>