A CU Boulder team member participates in the Subterranean Challenge

Thrills and nerves at underground drone challenge

April 21, 2020

A CU Boulder team is one of several funded teams in the Subterranean Challenge, a competition launched by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to stimulate and test ideas around autonomous robot use in difficult underground environments.

Kelp forests seen in the Pacific Ocean

Weak winds in the Pacific drove record-breaking heat wave

April 21, 2020

Weakened wind patterns likely spurred the wave of extreme ocean heat that swept the North Pacific last summer, according to new research led by CU Boulder and the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

students taking a test

Could climate change affect how well we think? New research says ‘yes’

April 21, 2020

New CU Boulder research finds that an anticipated rise in carbon dioxide concentrations in our indoor living and working spaces by the year 2100 could lead to impaired human cognition.

green space in a city

3 ways nature in the city can do you good, even in self-isolation

April 20, 2020

Spending time at the beach or taking a walk in the park improve your well-being, and the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more important. CIRES research scientist Erin Leckey and her colleagues share on The Conversation.

Catholic Church services are being streamed through YouTube

Religious communities are offering baptism by Zoom—such innovation has deep historicalÌýroots

April 20, 2020

Faith communities are changing many traditional practices to deal with coronavirus restrictions. Assistant Professor Samuel L. Boyd shares with The Conversation how innovation has long been part of religious practice.

snowy mountains

With shrinking snowpack, drought predictability melting away

April 20, 2020

New research from CU Boulder and CIRES suggests that during the 21st century, our ability to predict drought using snow will literally melt away.

Wayne Seltzer holding printed parts for face shields

ATLAS makers print face shield parts to help protect medical personnel from the novel coronavirus

April 16, 2020

Joining a grassroots global effort, members of the ATLAS community are 3D-printing face shield parts to help protect local medical personnel from exposure to COVID-19.

The interior of the Super-Kamiokande observatory

Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself? Neutrinos may hold the answer

April 15, 2020

Two physicists are on the hunt for neutrinos, among the most elusive subatomic particles known to science and the possible key to some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

A researcher works in the lab to develop SickStick.

Scientists developing COVID-19 test that knows you’re sick before you do

April 10, 2020

Imagine a test that could tell you if you were infected with COVID-19 before you had a single symptom. SickStick may offer that chance.

A hospital during the flu pandemic of 1918

6 lessons we can learn from past pandemics

April 8, 2020

CU Boulder history Professors Elizabeth Fenn and Susan Kent share insights from their study of disease outbreaks through the ages.

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