Daniel Strain
- Harrison "Jack" Schmitt talked with students at CU Boulder about the past and future of humanity's exploration of the moon.
- Ann-Marie Madigan has been named a 2018 Packard Fellow, an award that comes with a no-strings-attached grant of $875,000.
- Scientists have successfully collected dust raining down from Saturn's rings onto the planet's upper atmosphere.
- The race is on: Researchers from CU Boulder, CU Denver and Scientific Systems Company Inc. have partnered to design drones that can explore underground environments such as subway tunnels, mines and caves.
- Researchers at CU Boulder report that they may have solved a geophysical mystery, pinning down the likely cause of a phenomenon that resembles a wrench in the engine of the planet.
- CU Boulder researchers have proposed a new satellite that would orbit the moon to seek out signals from the cosmic "dark ages."
- Pioneering botanist Professor Emeritus William Weber built CU Boulder's collection of flowering plants, mosses and lichens from the ground up.
- 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.