Women take cover or prepare to evacuate more quickly but often have trouble convincing the men in their lives to do so, according to a study on how gender influences response to disaster. It also found traditional gender roles and power dynamics resurface, and female voices often go unheard.
Even if you are a non-smoker who exercises and has no genetic predisposition to cardiovascular disease, skimping on sleep—or getting too much of it—can boost your risk of heart attack.
Autism prevalence, which has historically been higher among white children, is now more common among black youth in most states and climbing faster among Hispanic youth than any other groups.
Children whose mothers lack a college education are significantly more likely to die young, particularly from unintentional injuries, according to a sweeping new CU Boulder study of more than 377,000 youth.
Cannabis researcher and professor Kent Hutchison has teamed up with the global online learning platform Coursera to launch a first-of-its-kind educational specialization “Medical Cannabis: Health Effects of THC and CBD.â€
The organizations charged with overseeing U.S. Olympic sports from the elite level down to the youth level earned an average score of 58 out of 100 for self-governance in a new study published Tuesday.
Droughts, floods, natural disasters—new research shows, without radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, one in four armed conflicts will result from climate change by century’s end.
CU recently hosted nearly 250 participants from the military, athletic, investment, scientific and entrepreneurial communities for a day-long exploration of where the limits of human performance lie and how to push those limits.