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Brainwaves: Video games and the serious business, art behind esports

March 10, 2020

Over a quarter of the world’s population is playing video games. What’s the big deal? And where do they go from here?

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Brainwaves: The state of music, from the Beatles to Gen Z

Feb. 26, 2020

On this episode of the Brainwaves podcast, we talk to a music professor about the Beatles' infamous breakup and speak with the creator of the Middle 8 YouTube channel about his take on Beatlemania and how technology is changing the face of music today.

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"The Bosses of the Senate" by Puck, 1889. (Image via Library of Congress)

Unlocking a century’s worth of congressional testimony

Historian Vilja Hulden, who is conducting a sweeping analysis of congressional lobbying from 1877 onward, has landed a major fellowship that will support her research. Read more

Processor Mark Hernandez demonstrates the installation process for the classroom air quality remote sensors to CU Boulder student volunteer technicians Christiane Nitcheu and Sylvia Akol. (Photos courtesy Anna Segur)

Researchers fight COVID-19 with new air filters in Denver Public Schools

When students in more than 20 Denver Public Schools return to classrooms for the spring semester, they’ll be coming back to cleaner indoor air, thanks in part to work being done by CU Boulder environmental engineering researchers. Read more

A person lifting a barbell (Photo by Andrew "Donovan" Valdivia/Unsplash)

Taking a look at sweat, bleach and gym air quality

A CU Boulder study shows human emissions, including amino acids from sweat or acetone from breath, can chemically combine with bleach cleaners to form new airborne chemicals with unknown impacts to indoor air quality. Read more

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Philosopher, scientists propose new way to categorize minerals

A CU Boulder philosopher and planetary scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science argue that the existing system of mineral classification fails to account for mineral evolution. Read more

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Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year

Researchers have found that a whopping one-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, costing farmers a half-billion dollars. Read more

Graphic showing pulsar light traveling to Earth amid a sea of gravitational waves.

‘Galaxy-sized’ observatory sees potential hints of gravitational waves

Scientists believe that planets like Earth bob in a sea of gravitational waves that spread throughout the universe. Now, an international team has gotten closer than ever before to detecting those cosmic ripples. Read more

"The Bosses of the Senate" by Puck, 1889. (Image via Library of Congress)

Unlocking a century’s worth of congressional testimony

Jan. 15, 2021

Historian Vilja Hulden, who is conducting a sweeping analysis of congressional lobbying from 1877 onward, has landed a major fellowship that will support her research.

Processor Mark Hernandez demonstrates the installation process for the classroom air quality remote sensors to CU Boulder student volunteer technicians Christiane Nitcheu and Sylvia Akol. (Photos courtesy Anna Segur)

Researchers fight COVID-19 with new air filters in Denver Public Schools

Jan. 13, 2021

When students in more than 20 Denver Public Schools return to classrooms for the spring semester, they’ll be coming back to cleaner indoor air, thanks in part to work being done by CU Boulder environmental engineering researchers.

A person lifting a barbell (Photo by Andrew "Donovan" Valdivia/Unsplash)

Taking a look at sweat, bleach and gym air quality

Jan. 13, 2021

A CU Boulder study shows human emissions, including amino acids from sweat or acetone from breath, can chemically combine with bleach cleaners to form new airborne chemicals with unknown impacts to indoor air quality.

A close up photo of a mineral in rock

Philosopher, scientists propose new way to categorize minerals

Jan. 12, 2021

A CU Boulder philosopher and planetary scientists at the Carnegie Institution for Science argue that the existing system of mineral classification fails to account for mineral evolution.

Hand holding a corn cob

Soil degradation costs U.S. corn farmers a half-billion dollars every year

Jan. 12, 2021

Researchers have found that a whopping one-third of the fertilizer applied to grow corn in the U.S. each year simply compensates for the ongoing loss of soil fertility, costing farmers a half-billion dollars.

Graphic showing pulsar light traveling to Earth amid a sea of gravitational waves.

‘Galaxy-sized’ observatory sees potential hints of gravitational waves

Jan. 11, 2021

Scientists believe that planets like Earth bob in a sea of gravitational waves that spread throughout the universe. Now, an international team has gotten closer than ever before to detecting those cosmic ripples.

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