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How to Cope in a Pandemic

March 18, 2021

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ psychology professors share tools to improve mental health amid COVID-19. As the world plunged into the COVID-19 pandemic in early 2020, Sona Dimidjian knew a parallel and more silent crisis was brewing in mental health. Dimidjian, a Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder psychology professor, immediately saw a trifecta of trouble: COVID-19 disrupted...

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Frozen in Ice, Frozen in Time

March 18, 2021

A Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ team froze their ship in Arctic ice in the name of science and storytelling. When the sea ice shifted beneath him, sending a crack straight between his two feet, Matthew Shupe didn’t panic. He calmly looked at his precious scientific equipment — installed only four feet away —...

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Sweat Effects

March 18, 2021

Human sweat and bleach cleaners mix to create new airborne chemicals in gyms. A Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ study from Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES) says this could affect air quality.

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Infographic: Beyond the Bluebird Sky

March 18, 2021

With at least eight institutions dedicated to solar and space physics, the city of Boulder is a global mecca for science related to the sun.

Mirela Alistar

Healthcare at Home

June 1, 2020

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder computer science assistant professor Mirela Alistar wants to make healthcare more personal. Her work with microfluidic biochips is getting us there.

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The Anti-Aging Pill

Feb. 1, 2020

Eating less may help the body age more slowly. Rather than promote starvation, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ researchers are testing a nutritional supplement that mimics the same effects of caloric restriction.

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Icebound

Oct. 1, 2019

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ researchers will join a year-long Arctic expedition to study the changing Earth from an icebound ship

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Photo of the Week: Nighttime on Mars

June 26, 2019

Giordan Thompson (MechEngr’20) was one of 21 Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder engineering students enrolled in the Maymester course, "Medicine in Space and Surface Environments," focused on aerospace engineering, human physiology and medicine. For one week of the three-week course, the students lived at the Mars Desert Research Station in southern Utah, where...

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Mars Missions

Infographic: Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Martian Missions

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ scientists have been involved in learning about our neighbor in the solar system since at least the 1960s.

Garden of the Gods

In Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Garden of the Gods, John Conway is the Ant King

It had been nearly 40 years since John R. Conway had visited Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ’s Garden of the Gods. He hadn’t come for the scenery — he’d come for the ants.

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