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Since middle school, Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder student Willie Payne has looked for ways to incorporate music composition and computer science. With dreams of composing music for video games, Payne became interested in exploring new ways of using technology. Specifically, Payne wanted to create unique musical dynamics and adaptations where the user controls sounds.

You don’t think you’re hungry, then a friend mentions how hungry he is or you smell some freshly baked pizza and whoaaa, you suddenly feel really hungry. Or, you’ve had surgery and need a bit of morphine for pain. As soon as you hit that button you feel relief even though the medicine hasn’t even hit your bloodstream.

A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs.

The Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ economy continues to expand, outperforming the U.S. economy and reaffirming previous expectations, according to the midyear economic update released today by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder’s Leeds School of Business.

The New Horizons spacecraft made a successful flyby of Pluto this morning after a nine-year, 3 billion-mile-journey, sending a thumbs-up signal to Earth tonight and elating the world’s space science community, including Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder participants.

When the New Horizons spacecraft encountered Pluto early this morning, several Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ-Boulder alumni realized a decade full of dreams and no one more so than Beth Cervelli.

Thirty-two Latino and Chicano Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ high school students are immersing themselves in college life and learning July 12-18 at the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder as part of the third annual Aquetza: Youth Leadership, Education and Community Empowerment summer program.

Children consume more low-nutrition, high-calorie food such as cookies and candy after observing seemingly overweight cartoon characters, according to a first-of-its-kind study led by the University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder.

After a nine-year journey of 3 billion miles, a piano-sized, power-packed NASA spacecraft has an upcoming date with history that some University of Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ Boulder students, faculty and alumni wouldn’t miss for the world.

Southern Californians and writers love to blame the hot, dry Santa Ana winds for tense, ugly moods, and the winds have long been associated with destructive Å·ÃÀ¿Ú±¬ÊÓƵ. Now, NOAA researchers have fo und that on occasion, the winds have an accomplice with respect to fires, at least: Natural atmospheric events known as stratospheric intrusions, which bring extremely dry air from the upper atmosphere down to the surface, adding to the fire danger effects of the Santa Anas, and exacerbating some air pollution episodes.