Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow鈥攕pinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may have solved the riddle.
This month, children across the U.S. are heading back to class. Their educations will be shaped by the decisions of nearly 13,000 school boards. Anna Deese, a former school board member from Montana, breaks down some of the biggest misconceptions.
In a new study, researchers created a sort of simulated voting booth鈥攁 space where people, or mathematical 鈥渁gents,鈥� with various biases could deliberate over decisions. The results may help reveal the mathematics of how the human brain acts when it needs to make a choice.
A growing number of AI technologies analyze the way people talk to screen for mental health conditions like depression or anxiety. A new study finds that they may not perform consistently across people from different demographic groups.
Since announcing her bid to run for president on July 21, Vice President Kamala Harris has generated praise and drawn questions about her electability鈥攊ncluding from some media outlets and online commentators who have asked: 鈥淚s the United States ready to elect a multiracial woman?鈥�
A coalition of educators from 10 states and led by CU Boulder has released a new series of free science curricula for high school students鈥攖ouching on issues critical to the lives of young people, from wildfires to rising sea levels and cancer biology.
CU Boulder graduate student Owen Martin grew up in Colorado but had never seen a firefly in the state until three years ago. Now, he and his advisor Orit Peleg are trying to raise awareness of the Rocky Mountain region's glowing and "wonderous" insects.
In a new rom-com, Scarlett Johansson plays a PR maven hired to film a fake version of the moon landing. Media scholar Rick Stevens gives his take on why conspiracy theories around the moon landing have such staying power.
On June 25, the last instrument in a series designed and built in Colorado, is scheduled to launch aboard an orbiting satellite. It's part of a program that spots flares leaping out from around the sun before they can cause trouble on Earth.
Light pollution from streetlights and other sources is making dark skies harder to find. CU Boulder astronomer Erica Ellingson gives her take on where you can still go in Colorado to see brilliant displays of stars.
