Geologist Carolyn Crow investigating moon rocks at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A once-in-a-lifetime look at Apollo moon rocks

July 10, 2019

More than 50 years after humans first set foot on the moon, one CU Boulder researcher will gain access to a cache of never-before-studied lunar rocks.

An illustration of a DNA strand

New drug therapy for cancer treatment based on CU Boulder research

July 9, 2019

A new drug therapy for cancer treatment, spun out of research performed in a CU Boulder biochemistry lab, may provide better results for patients with solid cancers and hematologic cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma.

A garden shovel with dirt on it.

Gardening: How getting dirty planting things has surprising health benefits

July 9, 2019

This week on the Brainwaves podcast: Gardening. It’s good for your physical health and your food budget. We have an interview with Chris Lowry, an associate professor of integrative physiology at CU Boulder, who wants to make a stress vaccine out of an unseen ingredient hidden deep in the soil.

An ice sheet in Antarctica, which scientists are now better able to measure

A clearer picture of global ice sheets

July 9, 2019

Improvements in satellite imaging and remote sensing equipment have allowed scientists to measure ice mass in greater detail than ever before.

Lara Vimercati examines a nieves penitentes structure on Volcán Llullaillaco in Chile

Even in jagged volcanic ice spires, life finds a way

July 8, 2019

High in the Andes Mountains, dagger-shaped ice spires house thriving microbial communities and an oasis for life in one of Earth’s harshest environments.

Smead Scholar Alex Hirst, a graduate researcher, helps get a drone ready for launch.

The air up there: CU team deploys drones in tornado study

July 3, 2019

CU Boulder students, faculty and staff are taking part in TORUS—the largest and most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe thunderstorms ever.

Torin Clark riding an artificial gravity simulator.

Artificial gravity—without the motion sickness

July 2, 2019

Artificial gravity has long been the stuff of science fiction. Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian, imaginary craft that generate their own gravity by spinning around in space. Now, a team from CU Boulder is working to make those out-there technologies a reality.

Kent Hutchison records a course in Boulder's Chautauqua Park

Bringing commonsense cannabis education to the masses

July 1, 2019

Cannabis researcher and professor Kent Hutchison has teamed up with the global online learning platform Coursera to launch a first-of-its-kind educational specialization “Medical Cannabis: Health Effects of THC and CBD.â€

A simulation of the level of detail that L-CIRiS's infrared camera will reveal ofÌýthe moon's surface.

An infrared close up of the moon

July 1, 2019

NASA announced that it will send a new infrared camera to the moon to collect unprecedented temperature data on the boulders and shadows at the surface.

Photo of Colorado Law's Wolf Law building

Netflix docuseries 'When They See Us' shines international spotlight on Colorado Law’s Korey Wise Innocence Project

July 1, 2019

The Korey Wise Innocence Project at Colorado Law has seen a dramatic uptick in international attention since the May 31 release of Ava DuVernay’s Netflix docuseries "When They See Us," based on the wrongful convictions of five teenagers who became known as the "Central Park Five."

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