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When Stefanie Mollborn asks her students how many teen-agers will get pregnant, they guess low. That’s because in college students’ circles, teen pregnancy is rare. Only 2 percent of teen mothers later earn a college degree, the U.S. Census Bureau reports.
Roger Pielke Jr. boils it down to a question: How long will the world embrace climate policies that have failed? More precisely, when will it embrace policies that are more likely to lower greenhouse-gas emissions and meet the world’s energy demand?
Douglas R. Seals has amassed scientific evidence indicating that exercise, weight loss, good nutrition, including salt restriction, can cut your chances of getting cardiovascular disease. Now he’s researching pills that might have the same effect.
CU scholars eye the next frontier of Renaissance literary criticismThe disappearing bison of the 19th century appear far, far removed from Hamlet, prince of Denmark. But Heather James sees a connection, and it is a variation on a theme of
Young people who have inherited a genetic variation leading to increased feeling of dizziness from smoking their first cigarettes have a higher risk of becoming addictive smokers.
About 90 percent of those afflicted with Parkinson’s disease have trouble speaking audibly, but researchers led by CU’s Lori Ramig has developed a treatment that helps most patients and is being used in 50 nations.
In the last two decades, people have used more fertilizer than was used in all of human history; meanwhile, the incidence of disease in humans and animals has been rising. A trio of CU researchers find evidence that those facts may be related.
Soviet photographers recorded Nazi atrocities, but state’s message changed after Stalin and after Soviet Union’s collapse; CU professor notes the significance of overlapping narratives and memoriesSoviet photojournalists working for the country’s
A CU professor has spent years studying the aftermath of two war-torn regions: Bosnia and the North Caucasus. He finds geographically varying levels of environmental destruction, forgiveness and repatriation, along with disparate prospects for peace.
‘Signals’ can transform coalitions in the high court, CU study finds