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Did humor evolve as a sign of mental fitness? Potential friends and mates flock to funny people. Many a grim, solitary soul can vouch for that. But the possibility that humor evolved in humans as a sign of mental fitness鈥攁nd a way to increase reproductive success鈥攆inds support from a University...

Just after midnight on Dec. 22, 2008, 5.4 million cubic yards of coal-fly ash overflowed a retention pond near the Kingston Fossil Plant in Tennessee. The event, which is still being sorted out, made for a perfect case study for Jill Litt's critical-thinking class.

A satellite image of the World Trade Center attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. (Image courtesy: NASA) Terrorism incites fear designed to coerce governments to act, according to definitions of 鈥渢errorism鈥� in U.S. law, in U.N. resolutions and elsewhere. But terrorism often prompts as much anger and retaliation as fear and...

University helped design and build now-orbiting Cosmic Origins Spectrograph Feb. 1, 2003, changed everything. Not only was it a disastrous loss for the friends and family of the astronauts aboard the space shuttle Columbia, which disintegrated as it re-entered Earth鈥檚 atmosphere, but it also dramatically changed the course of NASA...

After spending 16 years as a member of Congress (both in the House, and Senate), former University of Colorado President Hank Brown knows his way around Capitol Hill. It is that wealth of knowledge and experience that Brown brings to 鈥淚cons of the American Republic,鈥� a course that was first...

Surprising similarities between divergent groups, but old stereotypes persist, researcher says Though they express their sexuality in starkly different ways, evangelical Christian men and goth men share a startling amount of common ground in their 鈥渋ntimacy talk,鈥� which in both cases tends to emphasize intimacy, vulnerability and respect for women...

They are instructive today, historian says World War I shattered the people and the collective psyche of Great Britain, but the war鈥檚 end did not stop the strife or suffering. Between 1918 and 1931, the shell-shocked people and their nation sought to regain a sense of order through repression and...

Collaborating couple pursues next generation of lasers When the first functioning laser was unveiled in 1960, people had no idea it would be used for surgery, let alone in bar-code readers and CD players. Experts speculated that the new device might be used to peel potatoes or to erase typing...

Genes increasing risk for mental disorders should have been weeded out of the gene pool. Why haven鈥檛 they been? Schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and other mental disorders usually appear by the time the sufferers are in their reproductive prime, and these people typically have fewer offspring (the currency of natural selection)...

For parents who have found themselves repeating the same warnings or directions to their toddler over and over to no avail, new research from the University of Colorado at Boulder offers them an answer as to why their toddlers don鈥檛 listen to their advice: they鈥檙e just storing it away for...