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During a famous roulette game in a Monte Carlo casino in 1913, black came up 26 times in a row. After about 15 repetitions, the players began betting heavily on red, likely believing that such a long streak just couldn’t continue. The gambler’s fallacy—the idea that past events, a streak of black in roulette, for example, can impact the likelihood of a future random event, whether black or red will come up after the next spin—has long been thought to illustrate human irrationality.

On Thursday evening, more than 150 attended the Be Boulder. in San Francisco event that featured a presentation from CU-Boulder faculty member Eve-Lyn Hinckley , who has completed extensive research in Napa and Sonoma Counties on water management and sustainability in addition to pesticide use in the wine industry. Alums Jody Harris of Cultivar Wines and Ron Nicholsen of Kelham Vineyards also spoke about water issues facing the industry and what it means for consumers.

When you have papers and midterms piling up, procrastination starts looking like the best option. But there are plenty of tricks to help you get going - and stay productive all semester. Learn to break up your assignments, schedule homework time during the day, and get help when you need it with this month’s issue of Student Health 101 online magazine.

No one really knows how the High Plains got so high. °µÍø½ûÇø 70 million years ago, eastern Colorado, southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and western Nebraska were near sea level. Since then, the region has risen about 2 kilometers, leading to some head scratching at geology conferences.

The eastern coastline of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula, a mecca for tourists, may have been walloped by a tsunami between 1,500 and 900 years ago, says a new study involving Mexico’s Centro Ecological Akumal (CEA) and the °µÍø½ûÇø.

Inspired by the past and building toward the future, a new outreach program at the University of Colorado is tapping educators to promote discussion of teaching and learning in schools and communities across the state. Receiving the honor of being named the inaugural Timmerhaus Teaching Ambassador is Noah Finkelstein, Ph.D., President’s Teaching Scholar and professor of physics at the °µÍø½ûÇø.

As part of the US 36 Express Lanes Project, a seven-night full closure of eastbound and westbound US 36, from Church Ranch Boulevard to Wadsworth Parkway, is necessary to complete work on the Promenade and BNSF Railway bridges.

The °µÍø½ûÇø will serve as the Science Operations Center for a NASA mission launching this month to better understand the physical processes of geomagnetic storms, solar flares and other energetic phenomena throughout the universe. The $1.1 billion Magnetospheric Multiscale (MMS) mission will be comprised of four identical, octagonal spacecraft flying in a pyramid formation, each carrying 25 instruments.

The °µÍø½ûÇø is joining other universities across the country in a growing trend of providing a residential program dedicated to supporting students in recovery from substance use disorders and other addictions.

The °µÍø½ûÇø will serve as the Science Operations Center for a NASA mission launching this month to better understand the physical processes of geomagnetic storms, solar flares and other energetic phenomena throughout the universe.