Research Report

Understanding how stressors affect our gut microbes could lead to better performance—by the military and you.

Wildfires are becoming increasingly common in Colorado, due in part to climate change.

One building is new, LEED-certified and designed to maximize natural light.

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria like E. Coli and Staphylococcus kill at least 23,000 people and cause over two million infections in the U.S. annually.

A newly discovered 18-square-mile salt flat (roughly the size of Boulder) likely represents the evaporated remains of one of the last potentially habitable surface lakes to exist on the Red Planet.

Heather Hava has astronomical gardening skills. The CU Boulder graduate student develops advanced fruit and vegetable gardening systems for use by astronauts on Martian and lunar outposts.

For a team of CU Boulder students and scientists studying climate change on Mars, the answer is “blowin’ in the wind”.

More than a thousand satellites orbit Earth, including remote sensing satellites collecting vast amounts of data about global temperature, forest health, ocean circulation, sea ice and erosion.

Think you need a shovel to dig into Colorado’s distant past?

Jim Hakala thinks students should have a chance to hold history in their hands.