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Congress is considering dueling proposals this summer. One would make daylight saving time permanent; another would make standard time permanent. Which is better? Or should we just keep changing our clocks? A sleep expert weighs in.
Many employers worry remote workers feel disconnected. A new study found they reported higher well-being and were no more likely to feel isolated than their onsite peers.
By analyzing decades of war death statistics, researchers found large civil wars tend to cool off over time, but wars between nations show a persistent risk of ratcheting up in size.
As climate change drives more intense droughts, new research shows shrinking water supplies can give pathogens such as West Nile virus an edge.
Colorado jail hasn't allowed in-person visits in nearly 20 years—what research says about visitationNearly all Front Range county jails rely on video-only visits, and families are challenging one such policy in court. What does research say about the effects of in-person visitation? Read from CU expert Jillian Turanovic and University of Texas colleague Melinda Tasca on The Conversation.
CU Boulder engineer Ankur Gupta discusses how AI, paired with rigorous human verification, helped answer a decades-old fluid mechanics question in just five weeks.
A woeful winter and searing spring have thrust a spotlight on climate journalism. The Water Desk, an initiative of CU Boulder's College of Communication, Media, Design and Information, helps reporters throughout the West cover complex water issues.
New research investigates the shifting patterns of odors as they travel through the air. The findings may help explain how animals navigate using smell and eventually inform development of odor-finding robots.
Across political ideologies, people in the U.S. overwhelmingly gravitate toward technologies presented as natural and reject those that seem unnatural. The findings offer insight on why some proposed climate solutions fail.
CU Boulder scientist Matthew Olm and colleagues have mapped the gut microbiome's hidden global diversity, offering new insight into how industrialization has reshaped the microbes that support human health.