green space in a city

3 ways nature in the city can do you good, even in self-isolation

April 20, 2020

Spending time at the beach or taking a walk in the park improve your well-being, and the coronavirus pandemic has made it even more important. CIRES research scientist Erin Leckey and her colleagues share on The Conversation.

Catholic Church services are being streamed through YouTube

Religious communities are offering baptism by Zoom—such innovation has deep historicalÌýroots

April 20, 2020

Faith communities are changing many traditional practices to deal with coronavirus restrictions. Assistant Professor Samuel L. Boyd shares with The Conversation how innovation has long been part of religious practice.

snowy mountains

With shrinking snowpack, drought predictability melting away

April 20, 2020

New research from CU Boulder and CIRES suggests that during the 21st century, our ability to predict drought using snow will literally melt away.

Wayne Seltzer holding printed parts for face shields

ATLAS makers print face shield parts to help protect medical personnel from the novel coronavirus

April 16, 2020

Joining a grassroots global effort, members of the ATLAS community are 3D-printing face shield parts to help protect local medical personnel from exposure to COVID-19.

The interior of the Super-Kamiokande observatory

Why didn’t the universe annihilate itself? Neutrinos may hold the answer

April 15, 2020

Two physicists are on the hunt for neutrinos, among the most elusive subatomic particles known to science and the possible key to some of the universe’s biggest mysteries.

A researcher works in the lab to develop SickStick.

Scientists developing COVID-19 test that knows you’re sick before you do

April 10, 2020

Imagine a test that could tell you if you were infected with COVID-19 before you had a single symptom. SickStick may offer that chance.

A hospital during the flu pandemic of 1918

6 lessons we can learn from past pandemics

April 8, 2020

CU Boulder history Professors Elizabeth Fenn and Susan Kent share insights from their study of disease outbreaks through the ages.

Bernie Sanders gets into a vehicle

Bernie Sanders drops out, as Democrats pick pragmatism over consistency

April 8, 2020

Bernie Sanders is the antithesis of a political showman who says one thing today, another tomorrow. Perhaps, in the end, that was his undoing. Adjunct Assistant Professor of Linguistics Adam Hodges shares on The Conversation.

Series of smartphones with screens reading "Facebook."

Mathematician using Facebook data in the fight against COVID-19

April 7, 2020

Daniel Larremore tracks human diseases through the lens of mathematics. Now, he's joined a national effort to use social media data to slow the spread of coronavirus.

Detail of paintings from a document called the Grolier Codex.

Solving the case of the lost Maya codex

April 6, 2020

An artifact discovered in 1965 may have been a long-rumored fourth Maya codex. It may also have been a forgery. Archaeologist Gerardo Gutiérrez and his colleagues were on the case.

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