Pregnancy

Marijuana use while pregnant boosts risk of children’s sleep problems

July 10, 2020

Use marijuana while pregnant, and your child is more likely to suffer sleep problems as much as a decade later, according to a new CU Boulder study of nearly 12,000 youth.

Red meat

What makes arteries age? Study explores new link to gut bacteria, diet

July 10, 2020

A compound produced in the gut when we eat red meat damages our arteries and may play a key role in boosting risk of heart disease as we get older, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research.

Stem cell research

How does a stem cell know what to become? Study shows RNA plays key role

July 10, 2020

Look deep inside our cells, and you’ll find that each has an identical genome –a complete set of genes that provides the instructions for our cells’ form and function.

Space solar system

The collective power of the solar system’s dark, icy bodies

July 10, 2020

The outermost reaches of our solar system are a strange place—filled with dark and icy bodies with nicknames like Sedna, Biden and The Goblin, each of which span several hundred miles across.

A bee pollinating a flower

Native bees also facing novel pandemic

July 10, 2020

Move over, murder hornets. There’s a new bee killer in town. CU Boulder researchers have found there is growing evidence that another “pandemic,” as they call it, has been infecting bees around the world for the past two decades and is spreading: a fungal pathogen known as Nosema.

Swallowbird

Resident parasites influence appearance, evolution of barn swallows

June 24, 2020

Researchers at CU Boulder think local parasites are influencing why barn swallows in Europe, the Middle East and Colorado are choosing their mates differently.

The Cliffs at New Mexico

Ancient societies hold lessons for modern cities

June 19, 2020

Today’s modern cities, from Denver to Dubai, could learn a thing or two from the ancestral Pueblo communities that once stretched across the southwestern United States. For starters, the more people live together, the better the living standards.

COVID Closure sign

Mathematician on the front lines of Colorado’s coronavirus response

June 18, 2020

At the start of 2020, David Bortz, like most Coloradans, didn’t know what a coronavirus was. For the last few months, tracking this virus is practically his full-time job.

Cannavan

Marijuana concentrates sharply spike THC levels but don’t necessarily get users higher

June 18, 2020

Smoking high-potency marijuana concentrates boosts blood levels of THC more than twice as much as smoking conventional weed, but it doesn’t necessarily get you higher, according to a new study of regular users published today by CU Boulder researchers.

Antelope

As rare animals disappear, scientist faces ‘ecological grief’

June 18, 2020

Five years before the novel coronavirus ran rampant around the world, saiga antelopes from the steppes of Eurasia experienced their own epidemic.

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