Research
In June, NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams boarded the International Space Station (ISS), expecting a week-long stay in orbit. Now, they won’t return to Earth until February after a series of technical issues plagued the Boeing
That ordinary smartphone in your pocket could be a powerful tool for investigating outer space.In a new study, researchers at Google and CU Boulder have transformed millions of Android phones across the globe into a fleet of nimble scientific
Sarah Gillis (AeroEngr’17) is a lead space operations engineer and astronaut trainer at SpaceX with literal out-of-this-world experience.The University of Colorado Boulder alumna recently returned from a five-day orbital mission aboard Polaris Dawn
CU Boulder researchers are exploring the use of sodium-ion batteries as an alternative to lithium-based energy storage.
Anthony Straub is making major advances in water purification technology for industry and human consumption on Earth and in space, with his work on a nanotechnology membrane process taking a major step toward commercialization...
Drone technology and atmospheric science instruments developed by the University of Colorado Boulder will be available to researchers nationwide through a new grant.The National Science Foundation has awarded CU Boulder a three-year, $1 million
Zach Sunberg’s research developing better artificial intelligence systems is getting a major boost from two federal grant awards.Sunberg is receiving a $599,000, five-year CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation and is a partner on a
As part of a Long-Term Ecological Research (LTER) project in Antarctica, a research team led by Associate Dean for Research Mike Gooseff found that the unexpected melt followed by a rapid refreeze likely disrupted the life cycles of many organisms and killed a large swath of some invertebrates in the McMurdo Dry Valleys.
In a new study, researchers from the United States and Israel — including CU Boulder computer scientist Orit Peleg — may have gotten to the bottom of a quirky behavior of growing plants and a mystery that intrigued Charles Darwin during the later decades of his life.
Some artificial intelligence tools for health care may get confused by the ways people of different genders and races talk, according to a new study led by CU Boulder computer scientist Theodora Chaspari.