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The remarkable manner in which nature has found nearly perfect solutions to survival problems will be discussed at a free public lecture Wednesday, July 18, at the University of Colorado at Boulder. Princeton University physics Professor William Bialek will present "More Perfect Than We Imagined: A Physicist's View of Life" at 7 p.m. in Duane Physics, room G1B20.

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows people have the ability to suppress emotional memories with practice, which has implications for those suffering from conditions ranging from post-traumatic stress disorder to depression.

NEWS TIP SHEET Wildfire Klaus Wolter, climatologist and research associate with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, can provide a meteorological view of drought. For several years, Wolter has studied conditions in the southwestern United States and each month posts a detailed seasonal forecast for the region on the Web at www.cdc.noaa.gov/people/klaus.wolter/SWcasts . He can be reached at (303) 497-6340 or kew@cdc.noaa.gov .

The average career of a Major League Baseball player is 5.6 years, according to a new study by a University of Colorado at Boulder research team. The study also revealed that one in five position players will have only a single-year career, and that at every point of a player's career, the player's chance of ending his career is at least 11 percent.

A new University of Colorado at Boulder study shows that invisible, reactive gases hovering over Earth's surface, not direct emissions of particulates, form the bulk of organic haze in both urban and rural areas around the world.

A new study examining two possible factors leading to "environmental racism" finds that although the average black or Hispanic resident of a major U.S. city lives in a more polluted part of town than the average white person, the levels of inequality vary widely between cities and defy simple explanation.

Colorado's economy will continue to grow in a steady and manageable way during the second half of 2007, according to Richard Wobbekind, an economist with the University of Colorado at Boulder's Leeds School of Business. "We went into the year predicting a little bit of a slow down, a 1.9 percent job growth rate," Wobbekind said. "Right now we're slightly lower than that, but actually we're pretty much on the mark because we think the second half of the year is going to be stronger."

Award-winning University of Colorado at Boulder film Professor Kathleen Man has finished work on a new film about body image and how the personal and cultural demands for beauty and perfection in America nearly destroyed the life of one Boulder, Colo., woman.

The University of Colorado at BoulderÂ’s Biological Science Initiative is sponsoring four stem-cell lectures July 11 through July 13 on campus as part of a K-12 teacher education workshop. The lectures are free and open to the public.

The University of Colorado at Boulder School of Journalism and Mass Communication will use a $75,000 grant from the James M. Cox Foundation to launch a three-year, traveling program designed to empower journalists and other citizens in communities throughout Colorado with professional newsgathering techniques and hard-nosed tips for negotiating the "invisible Web." Foundation trustees approved the grant in late April for a program named in honor of George Orbanek, a CU-Boulder alumnus and longtime publisher of the Grand Junction Daily Sentinel, a Cox Newspapers Inc. publication.