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NASA's MESSENGER spacecraft served up another curveball to a University of Colorado at Boulder team after a second flyby of the hot inner planet Oct. 6 detected magnesium -- an element created inside exploding stars and which is found in many medicine cabinets on Earth -- clumped in the tenuous atmosphere of the planet.

The mysterious disappearance of Everett Ruess, a 20-year-old artist, writer and footloose explorer who wandered the Southwest in the early 1930s on a burro and who has become a folk hero to many, has been solved with the help of University of Colorado at Boulder researchers and the National Geographic Society.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will hold its spring commencement ceremony on Friday, May 8, beginning at 8:30 a.m. at Folsom Field, where 5,282 degrees will be conferred.

Professor Robert Kuchta of the University of Colorado at Boulder chemistry and biochemistry department can talk about the genetic makeup of flu strains, mutations, and the swift evaluation and identification of specific flu strains.

University of Colorado at Boulder officials are advising the campus community to take a few basic precautions to guard against swine influenza type A (H1N1) and announced some other preventive measures to guard against the virus.

University of Colorado at Boulder law Professor Harold "Hal" Bruff, author of a new book, "Bad Advice - Bush's Lawyers in the War on Terror," can address the ongoing controversy surrounding the legal advice that justified the Bush administration's use of harsh interrogation techniques on terrorism suspects.

University of Colorado at Boulder sociology Professor Michael Radelet isn't surprised the Colorado Legislature is considering abolishing the death penalty. It first did away with it in 1897.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will present the Distinguished Engineering Alumni Award to six accomplished engineers at the 44th annual Engineering Awards Banquet on April 24.

An analysis of ancient Greenland ice suggests a spike in the greenhouse gas methane about 11,600 years ago originated from wetlands rather than the ocean floor or from permafrost, a finding that is good news according to the University of Colorado at Boulder scientist who led the study.

The University of Colorado at Boulder will close a section of Regent Drive on campus starting May 9 to construct Regent Crossing, a pedestrian and bicycle underpass.