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Chemical manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry; a team of chemists is designing a technique that could power the necessary reactions with sunlight or LEDs. Read from CU expert Arindam Sau and Colorado State University colleagues on The Conversation.
With blockbuster films costing hundreds of millions of dollars, the way two musical notes manipulate tension in "Jaws" serves as a reminder that less can be more. Read from CU expert Jared Bahir Browsh on The Conversation.
Incarcerating people who use drugs is associated with increased overdose deaths after release and a high rate of recidivism. Read from CU expert Katherine LeMasters on The Conversation.
End-of-life planning today includes making sure your loved ones have access to digital photos, email archives and social media accounts. A student-run clinic at CU Boulder was launched to help. Read from experts Dylan Thomas Doyle and Jed Brubaker on The Conversation.
Miller moths migrate through Colorado every summer. Though often considered a pest, the native species plays important roles across the plains and up into the high country. Read from CU expert Ryan St Laurent on The Conversation.
Park and forest managers can no longer rely on the past to understand future risks—fires, pests and climate change are changing the game. Read from CU experts Kyra Clark-Wolf and Imtiaz Rangwala on The Conversation.
President Donald Trump has set aggressive goals to build a missile defense system, called the Golden Dome, but many parts of the system already exist. Read more from Iain Boyd on The Conversation.
Robert Francis Prevost has attributed the rise of artificial intelligence as the reason for his chosen papal name Leo XIV—a tribute to Pope Leo XIII, who served amid the Industrial Revolution, another time of radical technological change. Read from CU expert Nathan Schneider on The Conversation.
The concept of "Asian Americans," created in the 1960s by student activists as a way to move past denigrating labels, is today a contested category. Read from CU expert Jennifer Ho on The Conversation.
Ending all funding for NPR and PBS would unravel a U.S. public media system that took a century to build—the precursors of which consisted of professors giving lectures on history and finance. Read from CU expert Josh Shepperd on The Conversation.