麻豆淫院

The belief that online user ratings are good indicators of product quality is largely an illusion, according to a new CU-Boulder study. Yet almost all retailers provide user ratings on their websites and many consumers rely on the information when making purchase decisions.

Local high school students recently won the BoCo Youth Climate Challenge for a project that aims to help local businesses use clean energy. CU Boulder sponsored the challenge to engage Boulder County youth in reducing greenhouse gas emissions.

A partnership between the Children鈥檚 Museum of Denver and Yuko Munakata, a CU Boulder psychology and neuroscience professor, helps educate the public about child development through interactive science activities.

CU-Boulder's Zero Waste Team is using creative solutions to decrease campus waste going to landfills, while increasing recycling and composting and reducing paper use.

Here鈥檚 a new recipe that might be good for the planet: Add sunlight to a particular nitrogen molecule and out comes ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer used around the world. The eco-friendly method of producing ammonia is described in a new study led by the Department of Energy鈥檚 National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden and involving CU-Boulder.

Jim Hakala is hitting the road Friday with bins of captivating remnants of the ancient past. Among other things, he鈥檚 got fossilized fern, leaves, shark teeth, dinosaur bone, fish, petrified wood and a trilobite. This time, he鈥檚 targeting fourth grade classrooms in mostly northeastern Colorado with 12 of his 鈥渇ossil kits,鈥� courtesy of the CU Museum of Natural History, along with a standards-based curriculum for use by teachers.

Colorado employment is projected to expand over the next two quarters of 2016, though at a more modest pace, according to a CU-Boulder report released todayn Business formation rebounded in the first quarter of the year, reversing two consecutive quarters of decline, and the state saw 29,680 businesses come online.

Private donations to political candidates neither alter the candidates鈥� voting patterns once they鈥檙e in office nor make them more ideologically intractable, found a study co-authored by a University of Colorado Boulder political science professor. Yet that underlying belief has led to a range of political reforms including the controversial approach of using taxpayer dollars to pay for political campaigns. These were the central findings of the study, recently published in "Legislative Studies Quarterly."

Two reporters have won the 2016 Al Nakkula Award for Police Reporting. Their winning piece details how dogged police work by investigators in Colorado captured a serial rapist and led to the exoneration of a Washington woman who was wrongfully prosecuted for false reporting of a rape that actually happened.

A new study led by the European Space Agency and NASA involving the University of Colorado Boulder indicates NASA's Cassini spacecraft has detected the faint but distinct signature of dust coming from beyond our solar system.