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Fatal car accidents increase 6% in the week following the switch to daylight saving time, according to new CU Boulder research. The study comes as California and Florida lawmakers consider doing away with the time change.

U.S. birth weights have fallen significantly in recent decades due to soaring rates of cesarean deliveries and inductions, which have shortened the average pregnancy by about a week, according to new CU Boulder research.

Kelty Logan, associate professor of advertising in the College of Media, Communication and Information, offers up her predictions on what trends to expect with this year's Super Bowl commercials.

From classics such as “Gone with the Wind” to modern films such as “Avatar,” the movie industry packs a serious, and often hidden, environmental cost, says film scholar Hunter Vaughan.

Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, pioneers in the field of laser science, have won this year's prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.

People who are exposed to banks and other financial institutions as kids are more likely to be financially stable later in life, new research from CU Boulder’s Leeds School of Business shows.

Executives from four companies feeling hamstrung by big tech aired their grievances in front of members of Congress at CU Boulder.

Thirty-seven states, including Colorado, require minors to notify their parents or go before a judge before having an abortion. A new 18-year-study conducted in Texas shows judges deny minors' request up to 13% of the time and the judicial-bypass process is humiliating and traumatizing for some teens.

Oil and gas production has doubled in some parts of the U.S. in the last two years, and scientists can use satellites to see impacts of that trend: a significant increase in the release of the lung-irritating air pollutant nitrogen dioxide, for example, and a more-than-doubling of the amount of gas flared into the atmosphere.

Just like modern-day humans, Neanderthals may have seen the appeal in a little sand and surf, according to a new study.