fluorescent bacteria

Bacteria have feelings, too

Aug. 14, 2017

For humans, our sense of touch is relayed to the brain via small electrical pulses. But new research shows individual bacteria can feel their external environment in a similar way.

Science Discovery students send a high-altitude balloon into the air

Young engineers aim for the stratosphere at Science Discovery camp

Aug. 11, 2017

A recent Science Discovery camp gave budding engineers a chance to launch a high-altitude balloon to the edge of outer space.

Pallavi Bhusal at SMART

Underrepresented students excel through SMART

Aug. 11, 2017

In the sciences, research experience is critical to getting into graduate school. The SMART program helps level the playing field for underserved students who have not had the opportunity to participate in authentic research.

an illustration of a nucleosome

Microbe may explain evolutionary origins of DNA folding

Aug. 10, 2017

A new study uncovers surprising similarities in the ways that multicellular organisms fold their DNA.

Mesa Verde cliff dwellings

Ancient DNA used to track abandonment of Mesa Verde in 13th century

Aug. 10, 2017

Ancient DNA used to track the exodus of Pueblo people from Colorado's Mesa Verde region in the late 13th century indicates many wound up in the northern Rio Grande area of New Mexico.

Young girls learn to code at Girls on Fire summer camp

Girls on Fire ignites a passion for coding

Aug. 9, 2017

With the help of pocket-sized microcontrollers, the Girls on Fire camp is designed to make programming fun and easy for middle school girls.

a photo of a shovel in dirt

Soil doesn't forget

Aug. 8, 2017

Conditions thousands of years ago can leave a lasting mark on present-day soil microbes, new research finds.

Chaco Canyon petroglyphs

Chaco Canyon petroglyph may represent ancient total eclipse

Aug. 8, 2017

As the hullabaloo surrounding the Aug. 21 total solar eclipse swells by day, a ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder faculty members says a petroglyph in New Mexico's Chaco Canyon may represent a total eclipse from a thousand years ago.

High school students participate in Aquetza summer program

Latino high schoolers explore community empowerment

Aug. 7, 2017

More than 40 high school students with strong ties to Colorado's Latino/Chicano communities participated in Aquetza, a ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Engage summer youth education and leadership training program.

a glacial valley near the McMurdo Dry Valleys field site in Antarctica.

Tracking decade-long changes in an Antarctic polar desert

Aug. 7, 2017

An abnormal season of intense glacial melt in 2002 triggered multiple distinct changes in the physical and biological characteristics of Antarctica's McMurdo Dry Valleys over the ensuing decade.

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