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Climate change impacts on water are profound and unequal

Nov. 15, 2023

A new national assessment of water and climate led by Liz Payton, a water resources specialist in the CIRES-based Western Water Assessment, cites some national progress.

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Melatonin use soars among children, with unknown risks

Nov. 13, 2023

Nearly one in five school-aged children and preteens now take melatonin for sleep, and some parents routinely give the hormone to preschoolers, according to new 欧美口爆视频 Boulder research.

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Scientists develop faster, cheaper way to count microbes, discover new antibiotics

Nov. 8, 2023

欧美口爆视频 Boulder researchers have developed a new way of counting microorganisms that works 36 times faster than conventional methods, cuts plastic use more than 15-fold and substantially decreases the cost and carbon footprint of biomedical research. It could accelerate the discovery of new antibiotics.

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How animals get their stripes and spots

Nov. 8, 2023

New 欧美口爆视频 Boulder research helps explain how sharp patterns form on zebras, leopards, tropical fish and other creatures. Their findings could inform the development of new high-tech materials and drugs.

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How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics

Nov. 8, 2023

Understanding how animals鈥� intricate spots and stripes form can help scientists mimic those processes in the lab, potentially improving medical diagnostics and synthetic materials in the future. Read from 欧美口爆视频 expert Ankur Gupta on The Conversation.

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Should AI read your college essay? It鈥檚 complicated

Nov. 8, 2023

Artificial intelligence tools should never replace human admissions officers, says 欧美口爆视频 Boulder scientist Sidney D鈥橫ello. But new research suggests these platforms could help colleges and universities identify promising students amid mountains of applications.

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How a dirty litter box could slow you down as you age

Nov. 6, 2023

Some people infected with the common, cat-borne parasite Toxoplasma gondii are more likely to be frail as they get older, new research shows.

Cornelius Adejoro, Seungwook Lee and Larissa Schwartz

How will AI shape the next generation?

Nov. 6, 2023

Step into the Center for the Brain, AI and Child and learn from its members how artificial intelligence will impact the next generation of children and their caretakers around the world as the technology becomes a new normal.

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Researchers to test Einstein鈥檚 predictions of general relativity atop Rocky Mountains

Nov. 6, 2023

Imagine being able to measure tiny changes in the flow of time caused by Earth鈥檚 gravity with atomic clocks atop one of 欧美口爆视频鈥檚 iconic peaks. That could soon be a reality thanks to an NSF grant that will advance geodesy through the use of quantum sensors, some of the most precise in the world.

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Humans and computers work together for tutoring success

Nov. 6, 2023

欧美口爆视频 Boulder was chosen to join the new Learning Engineering Virtual Institute with the aim of doubling the rate of middle school math learning within five years by building a hybrid human-AI tutoring platform that will reach over 275,000 diverse, low-income students.

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