Science & Technology

<p>A first-of-its-kind, nationally representative <a href="http://www.aera.net/Newsroom/RecentAERAResearch/PolygenicInfluenceonEducationalAttainmentNewEvidenceFromtheNationalLongitudinalStudyofAdolescenttoAdultHealth/tabid/16036/Default.aspx"><span class="s2">study</span></a> of siblings supports previously published research on unrelated individuals that links specific genotypes to educational attainment among adults in their mid-20s to early 30s.</p>

<p>The University of Colorado Boulder has received a $3 million federal grant to develop cooling technology that will enable efficient, low-cost supplementary cooling for thermoelectric power plants.</p>

<p>University of Colorado faculty research merited $878.3 million in research awards during the 2014-15 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures, representing a near-record year for the four-campus system.</p>

<p>The University of Colorado Boulder was ranked No. 34 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released today by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.</p>

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f22690d8-1e7b-22a8-f2ac-545c37aa4be2">Stuck oil rigs, grizzly bears and changing weather patterns are just a few of the obstacles Gijs de Boer and his team of researchers encountered on the ground in </span>Oliktok Point, Alaska. De Boer, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, spent the last two weeks deploying the DataHawk 2, a small, lightweight, unmanned aircraft, designed by CU-Boulder’s Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.</p>

<p>It’s August and that means the hottest show in the night sky -- the Perseid meteor shower -- will make its annual appearance, peaking in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 11 to 14.</p>

<p>An intriguing study involving walking stick insects led by the University of Sheffield in England and the University of Colorado Boulder shows how natural selection, the engine of evolution, can also impede the formation of new species.</p>

<p>As the business of wearable technology continues to boom, a new University of Colorado technology that allows for the control of electronic devices with one-handed taps, swipes and touches has been optioned to the Boulder company gaugewear Inc.</p>

<p>The vast majority of people living in areas prone to wildfires know they face risk, but they tend to underestimate that risk compared with wildfire professionals, according to a CU-Boulder study.</p>

<p>The health of Colorado’s bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit, but a new study led by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder has found that inbreeding—a common hypothesis for a recent decline—likely isn’t to blame.</p>