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A summit underway at CU Boulder through March 28 is bringing an estimated 800 people from more than 40 countries to plan for the future of the Arctic.
The big business of the annual college basketball tournament—when fans throughout the country prepare to watch 136 men’s and women’s basketball teams battle—has been more than a century in the making.
New animal research shows that exposure to antibiotics at a critical window of development can stunt growth of insulin-producing cells in the pancreas, boosting risk of Type 1 diabetes. It also identifies a microorganism key to supporting healthy life-long metabolism.
As humans spend longer and longer in space, the mental health of astronauts will become increasingly important, says aerospace engineer Katya Arquilla. Her research could help people in orbit and on the ground.
A new study shows how misinformation is manipulating stock prices and harming investors, but greater transparency can help fight back.
For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research and tests of fundamental theories. But researchers at JILA, in collaboration with the Technical University of Vienna, are pushing beyond atomic transitions to something potentially even more stable: a nuclear clock.
Funded through nearly $1.5 million approved by the Colorado Economic Development Commission, these grants bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and commercialization.
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on. But what was the first thing scientists discovered? Read from CU expert James Byrne as he tackles this Curious Kids question on The Conversation.
Alireza Doostan is leading a $1.2 million effort for real-time data compression for supercomputer research.
For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.