Articles by Daniel Strain

Hikers and trail runners be warned: Rattlesnakes and other venomous reptiles may bite more people during rainy years than in seasons wracked by drought, a new study shows.

Physicists have developed an insulating gel that they say could coat the windows of habitats in space, allowing the settlers inside to trap and store energy from the sun.

In June, nine students from CU Boulder gave visitors to Mesa Verde National Park an education in yucca plants and other facets of Colorado ecology.

CU Boulder researchers and engineers have played a major role in designing the Parker Solar Probe, one of the "riskiest" NASA missions in decades.

Research pioneered at JILA is now up and running on a NASA experiment to explore exotic states of matter on the International Space Station.

Researchers at CU Boulder will soon set their sights on the heliosphere, a massive bubble in space that surrounds our solar system and shields it from incoming radiation.

A microscopic trampoline could help engineers to overcome a major hurdle for quantum computers, researchers report.

Two experiment payloads designed and built at CU Boulder are scheduled to blast off for the International Space Station in the early hours of June 29.

CU Boulder scientists are part of an international team that may have answered a long-running mystery called the "missing baryon problem."

Researchers have designed a new technique for spotting nasty personal attacks on social media networks like Instagram.