Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they growāspinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may have solved the riddle.
Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, CU Boulder researchers say.
New research by CU Boulder doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didnāt reduce ground-level ozone but may have other benefits.
Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson have won $1 million in support from the W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and extend Earthās temperature record by 2 billion years.
CU researchers are taking part in a national project to identify sources of urban air pollution. The data will contribute to research related to both health and climate.
Extreme weather is straining the countryās aging power grid from Texas to Colorado and California. Kyri Baker, who studies infrastructure, offers her perspective on what the grid of the future could look like.
A new analysis sheds light on major shortfalls of a recently proposed approach to capture CO2 from air and directly convert it to fuel using electricity. The authors also provide a new, more sustainable, alternative.
The American Ornithological Society reclassified two previously distinct species of finch as one, based on genetic research by CU Boulder scientists. The move knocks one name off birdersā ālife listā and raises questions about what a species really is.