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.

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.

Detail of paintings from a document called the Grolier Codex.

Solving the case of the lost Maya codex

April 6, 2020

An artifact discovered in 1965 may have been a long-rumored fourth Maya codex. It may also have been a forgery. Archaeologist Gerardo Gutiérrez and his colleagues were on the case.

Cells expressing a nuclear marker

To divide or not to divide? The mother cell may decide

April 2, 2020

Researchers at CU Boulder have found that it’s the mother cell that determines if its daughter cells will divide. The finding, explained in a new study out today in Science, sheds new light on the cell cycle using modern imaging technologies, and could have implications for cancer drug therapy treatments.

Rachel Sharpe conducts repairs on a 3D printer.

Labs use 3D printers to create face shield parts for health care workers

April 1, 2020

As coronavirus cases mount in Colorado, 3D printers are roaring back to life on campus to make much-needed equipment for hospitals.

A collage of chickadee images

Understanding evolution, one chickadee at a time

March 30, 2020

A CU Boulder researcher has received a $1.75 million NSF grant to study chickadee hybrids.

Individual cells in a cyanobacterial colony fluoresce

Even single-celled organisms need their space: Squished bacteria may shut down photosynthesis

March 23, 2020

Introverts take heart: When cells, like some people, get too squished, they can go into defense mode, even shutting down photosynthesis.

A stock image of people dancing in a parade

Parading crystals could usher in new generation of electronics

March 13, 2020

Researchers at CU Boulder found that when electricity is applied to "torons," they celebrate like they’re at Carnival.

Nick Conklin (kneeling) of 3D Printing Colorado captures a scan of a Triceratops skull.

3D scan sheds new light on Boulder’s own Triceratops

March 5, 2020

For more than 40 years, the Triceratops skull in the CU Museum of Natural History has wowed visitors of all ages. Now, that fossil is ready for its close-up.

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