High schoolers on a hike

CIRES Girls* on Rock program finds new footing in 2024

Sept. 10, 2024

High school students from across the country traveled in Colorado’s mountains to learn science, outdoor skills and art.

American flag on campus

Getting out the vote and hashing out the issues

Sept. 10, 2024

A nonpartisan, campuswide initiative aims to help students get registered and vote, as well as learn about the candidates and issues.

Five babies sitting

Have more babies! Some say it's necessary, but this demographer isn't convinced

Sept. 9, 2024

As birth rates fall in the U.S. and beyond, a growing ‘pronatalist’ movement contends that people should be having more babies to prevent economic and cultural decline. Leslie Root, a social demographer who studies fertility trends, offers her take.

Jessica Rush Leeker

Developing pathways for Black families to engage in engineering practices

Sept. 9, 2024

Jessica Rush Leeker has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to advance her research on creating learning resources that promote the participation of Black families in engineering.

River and mountains

The Wilderness Act turns 60

Sept. 6, 2024

CU Boulder’s Paul Sutter looks back on the history of the Wilderness Act as it approaches its diamond jubilee.

Parrotfish

Guardians of the reef: How parrotfish promote coral health

Sept. 5, 2024

CU researchers spent 400 hours under water observing these colorful fish in the Caribbean. They learned they’re smarter, and more neighborly, than previously thought.

Photo of a chamber with tubes, crystals and laser light insight

Major leap for nuclear clock paves way for quantum timekeeping

Sept. 4, 2024

Nuclear clocks, a new kind of quantum technology, could lead to improved timekeeping and navigation, faster internet speeds and advances in fundamental physics research.

the McMurdo Dry Valleys

How Earth’s most intense heat wave ever impacted life in Antarctica

Sept. 4, 2024

An atmospheric river brought warm, humid air to the coldest and driest corner of the planet in 2022, pushing temperatures 70 degrees above average. A new CU Boulder-led study reveals what happened to Antarctica’s smallest animals.

Wild horses

Domesticating horses had a huge impact on society—new science rewrites where, when it happened

Sept. 3, 2024

New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. Read from CU expert William Taylor on The Conversation.

Illustration of spacecraft with stars and the Milky Way in the background

New Horizons takes best measurements yet of the universe's eerie glow

Sept. 3, 2024

Over billions of years, the universe's stars and galaxies have left behind an imperceptibly faint light in space. NASA's New Horizons spacecraft has traveled to the edge of Earth's solar system and captured the most accurate measurement of this glow to date.

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