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Intrepid brain scientist Zoe Donaldson and an army of furry rodents are decoding life's most complex emotions.

The Southwest is drying. During a 730-mile rafting trip down the Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ River's main tributary, Heather Hansman saw water scarcity up close.

After ŷÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ, Olester Benson Jr. went on to earn more than 70 patents, including several that made cellphones, laptops and TVs brighter, more colorful and energy efficient.

Here, Fairfax explains what captivates her about wetlands and beavers, what she’s learned through her research and why we all should all see beavers in a positive light.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder boasts five Nobel laureates, four in physics and one in chemistry. Here's more on Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's scientist-celebrities.

Silver-tongued graduate students compete in the "Three Minute Thesis" competition.

Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ's Norm Pace isn't intimidated by the darkness of remote caves, or the vastness of the microbial universe. He's mastered both.

The giant wall-mounted fossil inside the Benson Earth Sciences depicts the most complete Stegosaurus skeleton ever found. 

We stock our shelves with books and pills intended to make us happy, but Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ psychologist June Gruber warns that too much of a good thing can backfire.

Stopped up by dams, slaked off by irrigation, and dried up by cities, the Green River is crucial, overused, and at risk, now more than ever.