2019-20
- For more than 40 years, visitors have flocked to the CU Museum of NaturalHistory to catch a glimpse of one big dinosaur specimen: the fossil skull of anancient Triceratops thats nearly the size of a Mini Cooper.
- Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram has developed a robot that can just about squeeze onto the surface of a penny and weighs far less than a paperclip while still being able to carry up to 10 times its own weight.
- Behold the super-puff worlds of the Kepler 51 star system.
- Aging satellites and space debris crowd low-Earth orbit, and launching new satellites adds to the collision risk.
- CU Boulder is part of a new, $100 million interdisciplinary national partnership to address critical water security issues in the U.S.
- The futures getting brighter for solar. CU Boulder researchers have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date.
- CU Boulder has been selected to launch and lead a new science and engineering research center toexplore the biggest challenges of the quantum worldfrom better understanding how the atoms inan atomic clock tick to how those processes can improve the science of measurement and probefor mysterious dark matter.
- The University of Coloradojumped from No. 53 to No. 20in a 2019 global ranking of the top 100 universities granted U.S. utility patents.