ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder Professor Douglas R. Seals has amassed scientific evidence indicating that exercise, weight loss, good nutrition and salt restriction can cut your chances of getting cardiovascular disease, the United States' No. 1 killer.
A ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder space dust counter designed, tested and operated by students that is flying aboard NASA's New Horizons mission to Pluto now holds the record for the most distant working dust detector ever to travel through space.
If you think global warming is bad, 11 billion years ago the entire universe underwent what might be called universal warming. The consequence of that early heating was that fierce blasts of radiation from voracious black holes stunted the growth of some small galaxies for a stretch of 500 million years.
NASA announced today that the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder-led mission to Mars to investigate how the planet lost much of its atmosphere eons ago has been approved by the space agency to move into the development stage.
A half-billion years ago, vertebrates lacked the ability to chew their food. They did not have jaws. Instead, their heads consisted of a flexible, fused basket of cartilage.
Three ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder programs receive special recognition in the recently released 2011 Fiske Guide to Colleges, including a Top 10 ranking as "environmental studies schools that should be on your radar."
Distinguished Professor Carl Wieman of the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder has been confirmed by the U.S. Senate as associate director for science in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.
Dark-colored dust that settles on snow in the Upper Colorado River Basin makes the snow melt early and robs the Colorado River of about 5 percent of its water each year, says a new study co-authored by researchers from the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder-based Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.
The Arctic sea ice cover appears to have reached its minimum extent for the year, the third-lowest recorded since satellites began measuring sea ice extent in 1979, according to the ÀÖ²¥´«Ã½ at Boulder's National Snow and Ice Data Center.