Brain awareness class paper and crayons

Mind matters: Learning about the brain

March 9, 2016

INC Classroom Outreach sends teams of CU-Boulder students into local schools to teach kids about the brain. They provide lessons on sleep, nutrition for the brain, emotions, head injury and general brain structure. The program is an extension of a large-scale effort to increase public awareness of brain research.

An albatross in flight

Hop, skip and a jump: CU-Boulder researchers reveal molecular search patterns

March 6, 2016

Like an albatross scanning for pods of squid in a vast ocean, molecules on solid surfaces move in an intermittent search pattern that provides maximum efficiency, according to new research from the University of Colorado Boulder.

CU-Boulder鈥檚 first endowed telecom chair to be funded by $4 million gift

Feb. 23, 2016

A $4 million bequest from the estate of a couple committed to the standardization of telecommunications will help establish the first endowed chair in the Interdisciplinary Telecommunications Program (ITP) at the University of Colorado Boulder. The pioneering program is part of the College of Engineering and Applied Science and integrates law, policy, business and engineering.

Ultrafast microscope used to make slow-motion electron movie

Feb. 16, 2016

University of Colorado Boulder researchers have demonstrated the use of the world鈥檚 first ultrafast optical microscope, allowing them to probe and visualize matter at the atomic level with mind-bending speed.

CU-Boulder researchers recycle carbon-fiber composites into new, equally strong material

Feb. 15, 2016

Carbon-fiber composites 鈥 stronger than steel and lighter than aluminum 鈥 can easily and cost-effectively be recycled into new material just as robust as the originals, a team of researchers led by the University of Colorado Boulder has found.

Diatryma Illustration of a flightless bird, Gastornis

Giant bird browsed in the Arctic twilight 50 million years ago

Feb. 12, 2016

Strange as it may seem, a bird bigger than Big Bird once lived above the Arctic Circle. The flightless bird, known as Gastornis , roamed Ellesmere Island next to Greenland about 50 million years ago, even during the twilight months of winter.

An illustration of the giant, flightless bird known as Genyornis newtoni, surprised on her nest by a 1-ton predatory lizard named Megalania prisca in Australia roughly 50,000 years ago.

Ancient extinction of giant Australian bird points to humans

Jan. 29, 2016

The first direct evidence that humans played a substantial role in the extinction of the huge, wondrous beasts inhabiting Australia some 50,000 years ago -- in this case a 500-pound bird -- has been discovered by a University of Colorado Boulder-led team.

A high-resolution map based on NOAA weather data showing wind energy potential across the United States in 2012

Rapid, affordable energy transformation possible

Jan. 25, 2016

The United States could slash greenhouse gas emissions from power production by up to 78 percent below 1990 levels within 15 years while meeting increased demand, according to a new study by NOAA and University of Colorado Boulder researchers.

salmonella bacteria under a microscope

Light-activated nanoparticles prove effective against antibiotic-resistant 鈥渟uperbugs鈥

Jan. 18, 2016

In the ever-escalating evolutionary battle with drug-resistant bacteria, humans may soon have a leg up thanks to adaptive, light-activated nanotherapy developed by researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder. Antibiotic-resistant bacteria such as Salmonella, E. Coli and Staphylococcus infect some 2 million people and kill at least 23,000 people in the United States each year. Efforts to thwart these so-called 鈥渟uperbugs鈥 have consistently fallen short due to the bacteria鈥檚 ability to rapidly adapt and develop immunity to common antibiotics such as penicillin.

Pregnant woman meditating

Mindfulness training more effective against postpartum depression than conventional methods, CU-Boulder study says

Jan. 11, 2016

Pregnant and postpartum women at risk of depression are less likely to suffer depression when they meditate or get in a yoga pose than when they are treated with psychotherapy or antidepressants, a new study led by University of Colorado Boulder researchers has found.

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