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CU researchers are setting fires inside wind tunnels to gain a better understanding of how fire spreads across different terrain.

A new study takes a close look at TRAPPIST-1, a little star roughly 40 light-years from our sun that hosts seven Earth-sized planets.

With the Nov. 26 cinematic release of "Hamnet," CU Boulder scholars consider what is actually known about the famed playwright and why people are still reading his works four centuries later.

Ulubilge Ulusoy is advancing the science of artificial intelligence to help astronauts on future missions to Mars.

A new review paper points to the positive qualities, including empathy, creativity and resilience, that often accompany psychological disorders. By recognizing them, the authors argue, we can decrease stigma and improve care.

CU Boulder historian Ashleigh Lawrence-Sanders delineates misperceptions surrounding "the mother of the Civil Rights Movement" and the Montgomery Bus Boycott while highlighting Parks' enduring legacy.

CU expert Andrew Cowell is working to combine decades of language documentation with new technological approaches in order to help revive the Arapaho language. Read more on The Conversation.

A CU Boulder-led study finds that Earth's early atmosphere could have produced key sulfur biomolecules essential for life, challenging long-held assumptions.

Roughly 4.5 million years ago, two stars known as Epsilon and Beta Canis Majoris flew past Earth's sun at a distance of about 30 to 35 light-years. In the process, they altered the chemistry of what scientists call the "local interstellar clouds."

Scholars at CU's Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and the Environment, in collaboration with law professors across the western U.S., have taken the lead in defending a Bureau of Land Management rule.