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- This summer marks the 50th anniversary of the movie "Jaws," which made generations of audiences afraid to go in the water again. It also created a lot of misconceptions about sharks, says CU Boulder biologist Andrew Martin.
- With a RIO seed grant, the Emergent Nanotechnology Lab team has begun research to develop new bioplastics made to be used as fertilizer at end of life.
- Scientists used fossil groundwater and model simulations to identify regional differences in aquifer response during the Last Glacial Termination, a period of warming, ice sheet loss and major environmental change that occurred between 20,000 and 11,000 years ago.
- Incarcerating people who use drugs is associated with increased overdose deaths after release and a high rate of recidivism. Read from CU expert Katherine LeMasters on The Conversation.
- Ecologist Katharine Suding shares insights on the increasing risks of grassland fire across the country.
- CU Boulder conflict scholar Michael English explains why public protests matter and what they can mean in the current political and social moment.
- In this Q&A, astrophysicist Kevin France, a LASP researcher and associate professor, explores how astrophysics—once considered to be the purview of big telescopes like Hubble—is being revolutionized by SmallSats.
- Improved understanding of the light-driven production of hydrogen holds the promise not just to make the reaction more efficient in producing a fuel but also to offer a framework to better understand future light-driven chemistries.
- Robert Brakenridge has spent decades trying to understand how distant exploding stars may have affected Earth's atmosphere in the past. A new analysis indicates the need for continued research in the field.
- In newly published research, CU Boulder scientists study a rocky exoplanet outside our solar system, learning more about whether and how planets maintain atmospheres.