Division of Natural Sciences

CU Boulder Department of Physics named inaugural recipient of the Carl E. Wieman Award for Excellence for sustained commitment to high-quality undergraduate education.

The award recognizes the CU Boulder developmental biologist for extraordinary research contributions being a mentor who helped train the next generation of outstanding scientists.

In newly published research, CU Boulder scientist Matthew Olm and colleagues map the gut microbiome’s hidden global diversity.

CU Boulder researcher Cliff Bueno de Mesquita and colleagues are showing why microbial solutions to livestock methane emissions reductions won’t stop beef and dairy’s environmental and health problems.

Here’s what you can do to protect yourself.

CU Boulder Professor Emeritus Gifford Miller contributed to a new study that delivers a more accurate understanding of the extinction of one of Australia’s oversized flightless birds.

A major digitization project at CU Boulder’s Natural History Museum is helping researchers around the world collaborate like never before.

Earth science PhD candidate Catherine Fontana will pursue cyanobacterial biofilm research at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory.

Two CU Boulder researchers are helping clarify how species’ populations with longer lives can still adapt to a changing climate.

A lot of ‘recycled’ plastic is being burned overseas—and causing widespread pollution linked to health problems.