News Headlines
- Griswold v. Connecticut, the 1965 Supreme Court ruling protecting a husband and wife’s right to contraception, set the precedent for several other landmark cases about sex and privacy. Read from CU expert Samira Mehta on The Conversation.
- Delta is testing an AI-powered pricing system that could charge two travelers different fares even if they are purchasing at the same moment. Pricing strategy expert Övünç Yılmaz explains what this shift means for consumers—and why we should expect more of it.
- A study led by doctoral student Daniel Donado-Quintero shows that setting carbon benchmarks can encourage asphalt producers to lower emissions and optimize production processes—supporting Colorado’s Buy Clean Act and other efforts.
- The law requires crowdfunded startups to report back to investors. The reality? Most don’t. Read from CU expert Andrew Schwartz on The Conversation.
- Researchers have identified more than 400 genes associated with accelerated aging, a.k.a. frailty, across seven categories. The findings pave the way toward personalized therapies to curb disease by decelerating aging.
- Across the globe, deserts are spreading, engulfing homes, roads and even entire villages in sand. Engineers at CU Boulder are exploring how humans can shift the paths of these towering formations.
- Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new bio-imaging device that can operate with significantly lower power and in an entirely non-mechanical way. It could one day improve detecting eye and even heart conditions.
- Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges of water into Juneau for three straight summers. Read from CU expert Alton Byers and a colleague on The Conversation.
- CU Boulder researchers, with an international team of colleagues, find that childhood pets are linked to healthier stress responses.
- CU Boulder's Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator will hire up to seven Embark Startup Founders to serve as CEOs of new deep tech companies built around technology developed in CU Boulder's world-class research enterprise.