A University of Colorado at Boulder team has uncovered an ancient and previously unknown Maya agricultural system -- a large manioc field intensively cultivated as a staple crop that was buried and exquisitely preserved under a blanket of ash by a volcanic eruption in present-day El Salvador 1,400 years ago.
The identity of a man killed 130 years ago was immediately called into question, generated two exhumations, six separate trials and two rulings of the U.S. Supreme Court, one of them a landmark decision on admissible forms of evidence.
The University of Colorado Program Council, University Memorial Center staff and city of Boulder officials will conduct a sound test on Sunday, June 14, between 3 and 7 p.m. at Farrand Field on the CU-Boulder campus.
According to Colorado lore, a settler named Mike Callahan came to the state's Western Slope in 1882 and settled along Parachute Creek. He built a log cabin from the sturdy pines of the area and finished it off with a fireplace and chimney made from the abundant rocks he found on nearby hills. But when he lit a fire in the hearth his housewarming suddenly took on new meaning when the chimney rocks burst into flames, engulfing the entire house.
Rare Navajo weavings from what is considered one of the finest Southwest textile collections in the world are on display for one year at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History located in the Henderson Building on the Boulder campus.
Only 11 percent of wildfire mitigation efforts undertaken as a result of a long-term federal fuels-reduction program to cut down catastrophic wildfire risk to communities have been undertaken near people's homes or offices in the past five years, says a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
University of Colorado at Boulder Interim Provost Stein Sture today named Russell Moore interim vice chancellor for research and John Stevenson interim dean of the Graduate School. The two posts were united into one position under Sture, whom CU-Boulder Chancellor Phil DiStefano named CU's interim provost on May 15.
Ancestors of tapirs and ancient cousins of rhinos living above the Arctic Circle 53 million years ago endured six months of darkness each year in a far milder climate than today that featured lush, swampy forests, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Boulder.
Proteins of all sizes and shapes do most of the work in living cells. The proteins in our cells may be tiny keys to unlocking mysteries about how our bodies react to disease, food and the world. But first we must learn more about these tiny protein keys.