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Materials researchers are getting a big boost from a new database created by a team led by Hendrik Heinz.
In a new paper, Alton Byers and his coauthors identified a rapidly forming glacial lake in the Kanchenjunga Conservation Area. The researchers model potential flood scenarios and suggest mitigation measures.
Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram, in collaboration with Laura Blumenschein, has received a $1.4 million grant from the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory to develop a tiny robot super team capable of navigating a complex maze of machinery and squeeze through the tightest of spaces—like the guts of a jet engine—to potentially perform non-destructive evaluation faster, cheaper and better than ever before.
Recently featured in the blockbuster "Thunderbolts"—and with the Thunderbolts featured on a tie-in box—Wheaties has been the go-to champion breakfast for 100 years and counting.
A plan to eliminate federal taxes on tips is moving forward, but the benefits may be smaller than they sound. Nicole Lazzeri walks through the policy proposal and what workers and taxpayers should know.
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.
From 2016 to 2022, NASA's MinXSS CubeSat mission launched small satellites built by LASP students to study X-ray emissions from the sun. The mission, which officially ended in March, provided groundbreaking insights into solar activity and demonstrated how small, cost-effective satellites can achieve significant scientific results.
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.
CU Boulder doctoral candidate Benjamin VanDreew's study found that Barbie is "woke," book banning isn’t, plus more.
When Taylor Howard dove into research on Sister Mary Dominic Ray, she was expecting to find the nun's biography, books she annotated or articles she wrote. Instead, she unlocked a highly varied collection of documents that left Sister Mary a mystery.