Ultracold matter technology from ŷڱƵ and SRI International licensed to Boulder’s ColdQuanta

March 19, 2012

ColdQuanta Inc. of Boulder and the University of ŷڱƵ have finalized an agreement allowing ColdQuanta to commercialize cutting-edge physics research developed by ŷڱƵ-Boulder and SRI International. The licensed technology centers on Bose-Einstein Condensate, or BEC, a new form of matter created just above absolute zero.

ŷڱƵ 3D super-resolution imaging technology to be developed by Boulder’s Double Helix

March 16, 2012

Double Helix LLC of Boulder and the University of ŷڱƵ have completed an exclusive option agreement to allow Double Helix to develop a novel technique for 3D super-resolution imaging.

ŷڱƵ students’ work makes it to the big screen

March 14, 2012

The work of a talented group of University of ŷڱƵ Boulder students and staff will be making it to the big screen this weekend. The really big screen -- in fact, a more than 20-meter dome.

Discovery of pine beetles breeding twice in a year helps explain increasing damage, ŷڱƵ researchers say

March 14, 2012

Long thought to produce only one generation of tree-killing offspring annually, some populations of mountain pine beetles now produce two generations per year, dramatically increasing the potential for the bugs to kill lodgepole and ponderosa pine trees, University of ŷڱƵ Boulder researchers have found.

Nobel laureate Adam Riess to give Gamow Memorial Lecture at ŷڱƵ-Boulder March 22

March 14, 2012

Johns Hopkins University Professor Adam Riess, who shared the 2011 Nobel Prize in physics for uncovering evidence that the universe is expanding, will give the 2012 George Gamow Memorial Lecture at the University of ŷڱƵ Boulder on Thursday, March 22. Free and open to the public, the talk is titled “Supernovae and the Discovery of the Accelerating Universe.” The talk will be held at 7:30 p.m. in Macky Auditorium and is intended for a general audience.

ŷڱƵ and NIST scientists reveal inner workings of magnets, a finding that could lead to faster computers

March 14, 2012

Using the world’s fastest light source -- specialized X-ray lasers -- scientists at the University of ŷڱƵ Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology have revealed the secret inner life of magnets, a finding that could lead to faster and “smarter” computers.

Offbeat math professor Edward Burger to speak at ŷڱƵ-Boulder March 15

March 8, 2012

If you despise math and the sight of an equation makes you physically ill, Professor Edward Burger of Baylor University and Williams College may be able to heal you during a talk at the University of ŷڱƵ Boulder on Thursday, March 15.

ŷڱƵ symposium focuses on public media, education

March 6, 2012

Experts will focus on the growing influence of public radio and television media in the digital age at a University of ŷڱƵ Boulder symposium, which is free and open to the public, March 13-14. Journalism and Mass Communication at ŷڱƵ-Boulder is sponsoring “The Content and Context of Digital Culture.” The symposium will be held at various sites across campus and a complete schedule is available at http://icjmtsymposium.org/schedule .

Gasoline worse than diesel when it comes to some types of air pollution

March 2, 2012

The exhaust fumes from gasoline vehicles contribute more to the production of a specific type of air pollution -- secondary organic aerosols -- than those from diesel vehicles, according to a new study by scientists from the University of ŷڱƵ Boulder’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES, NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory and other colleagues.

Four ŷڱƵ-Boulder faculty members elected American Geophysical Union Fellows in 2012

Feb. 29, 2012

Four University of ŷڱƵ Boulder faculty members have been elected American Geophysical Union Fellows for 2012, the most from any institution in the world.

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