News Headlines
- Through a Center for Asian Studies program, K-14 educators gained a more nuanced perspective on culture, conflict and change among three conflict-affected countries—Afghanistan, Cambodia and Vietnam.
- The Oleksy lab has taken over a 42-year-old monitoring project in Rocky Mountain National Park. The lab's investigations reveal how remote alpine watersheds are changing in the Anthropocene.
- CU Boulder researcher Emily Yeo finds that some babies may benefit from more support and resources so they can grow up to lead long, happy and healthy lives.
- Researchers are helping lead efforts to plan NASA's next-generation large space telescope, the Habitable Worlds Observatory, which will be the first telescope specifically designed to identify habitable, Earth-like planets.
- New work, led by former CIRES and CU Boulder doctoral student Alex Bradley, shows that modern pollution patterns and the burdens they place on communities in Denver depend heavily on historical changes, including city planning, industry and discriminatory redlining practices.
- A company founded by LASP researchers has been awarded one of ten NASA TechLeap Prizes for the development of a system that will use electron beams to charge lunar dust to repel and remove it from surfaces, including spacesuits and solar panels.
- Experiencing malnutrition in childhood or adolescence may not necessarily harm the health of humans into adulthood—although the relationship is complicated, a new study finds.
- Major networks increasingly focus on criticizing the opposing party–fueling division to boost ratings, according to a 12-year study of TV news.
- New research warns that global rainfall patterns could shift dramatically as a result of climate change.
- Founded in 2020, the U.S. National Science Foundation National AI Institute for Student-AI Teaming (NSF iSAT) explores how AI can help K-12 students collaborate together in ways that are meaningful and productive.