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Study of satellite imagery of the world at night, long used as an indication of the wealth of nations, is being refined with other data to give scientists a better picture of human and environmental well-being. Night Light Development Index correlates strongly with the U.N. Human Development Indicator, other welfare...

Since 1975, Fiske Planetarium has been the Johnny Appleseed of astronomy. Each year, 30,000 K-12 students and 4,000 University of Colorado Boulder students go there to take a front-row seat on the universe.

An artist’s conception of the Van Allen Probes circling Earth’s radiation belts. (Image courtesy NASA) Using data from a NASA satellite, a team of scientists led by the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico and involving the University of Colorado Boulder have discovered a massive particle accelerator in the...

There’s gold in them thar drawers. Or there was, until recently, at the University of Colorado Boulder Division of Continuing Education.

The name may not stick, but the ideas behind a proposed Interdepartmental Program in Fine Arts have stirred enthusiasm in the Film Studies, Art and Art History and Theatre & Dance departments at CU-Boulder. The program could lead to the creation of a new fine-arts school within the college. “It...

East Africa’s Maasai on the hunt for lions. Some conservation initiatives designed to save lions from being hunted have either failed to work or in some cases appear to have incited Maasai to hunt more lions as a form of political protest, the researchers report. Photo by Joana Roque de...

For actor Jenna Bainbridge, playing Hermia in “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at this summer’s Colorado Shakespeare Festival is a perfect fit. Like her character, she’s spent much of her life pushing against boundaries and expectations set by other people. “Hermia is a younger and vivacious woman who has kind of...

Diana Nemergut designed the course to teach technical skills in environmental microbiology. The course did much more; it also generated field research and a scholarly publication involving graduate students and even undergraduates.

Andrew Martin, a professor in the CU-Boulder Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, directs the university’s Teaching Evolution Outreach Program. Photo courtesy of Hillary Rosner Evolution is a fundamental building block of biology that underpins our understanding of the diversity of life today and how we, as humans, came to...

A quarter of a century ago, most of the world’s “underachievers” in terms of human development—measured by such things as life expectancy, education, guaranteed human rights and political freedom—were Muslim countries. Human development might be considered a way to gauge how “rich” or “poor” a country is beyond traditional measures...