Solar flair

1967 solar storm nearly took US to brink of war

Aug. 9, 2016

A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new study finds.

Aerial photo of Camp Century in Greenland from 1959

Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.

$1 million gift to BioFrontiers Institute to aid graduate students

July 29, 2016

The University of Colorado’s BioFrontiers Institute has received a $1 million gift from John F. Milligan and Kathryn Bradford-Milligan of Hillsborough, California to establish a fund for graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary bioscience program.

Electrical student working on project

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder-CMU add civil engineering to partnership

July 19, 2016

Colorado Mesa University and ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder announced the expansion of their engineering program partnership to allow students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder by taking classes delivered at Colorado Mesa.

 Oil well

Studying natural gas leakage in Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin

July 11, 2016

The rate of groundwater contamination due to natural gas leakage from oil and gas wells has remained largely unchanged in northeastern Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin since 2001, according to a new University of Colorado Boulder study based on public records and historical data.

mitochondria from mammalian lung tissue

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder researchers unlock longstanding mitochondrial mystery

June 23, 2016

When it comes to mitochondrial inheritance, maternal genes rule the day at the expense of paternal ones. But why? A new study, published today in the journal Science and led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers, sheds new light on a longstanding biological mystery.

Juno artist rendering with planet in background

¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder faculty, students primed for Juno arrival at Jupiter

June 23, 2016

A group of University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are anxiously awaiting the arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter July 4, a mission expected to reveal the hidden interior of the gas giant as well as keys to how our solar system formed.

Damage from an earthquake

Earthquake reconnaissance: Students learn in Japan

June 22, 2016

Seeing the severe damage and massive loss of life from earthquakes led Jenny Ramírez into the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Ramirez, who was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, is a doctoral student in civil engineering at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder. She now is doing numerical simulations of soil deposits subjected to earthquakes.

 Student presenting science experiment

Back to the future: High schoolers get hands-on experience at ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder

June 20, 2016

A group of Denver high school students who recently descended on the ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder campus rolled up their sleeves for a week of real-world engineering experience and the opportunity to earn $2,500 scholarships.

 Example of a short-faced bears that stood 12 feet tall and weighed nearly a ton.

Early humans, giant Patagonian beasts: Then they saw them, now we don’t

June 17, 2016

Some of the beasts living in Patagonia 13,000 years ago were an intimidating bunch: Fierce saber-toothed cats, elephant-sized sloths, ancient jaguars as big as today’s tigers and short-faced bears that stood 12 feet tall and weighed nearly a ton. But by 12,000 years ago, they had disappeared. What happened?

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