Sleep-deprived preschoolers crave more calories

Sleep-deprived preschoolers crave more calories

Oct. 13, 2016

Is your preschooler getting enough sleep? If not, he or she may be inclined to consume more calories, according to a new CU Boulder study, findings with implications for childhood obesity risk.

Fit or not?

Feeling heavy? Light? Your genes might be to blame

Aug. 31, 2016

Do you feel overweight, about right, or too skinny? Your answer to that question may be tied to genes you inherited from your parents, especially if you are a female, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Colorado barn swallow pair in flight. Photo by Matthew R Wilkins.

Mate choices of barn swallows tied to diverging appearances

Aug. 15, 2016

If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you’re apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States, or short ones in the Mediterranean, the females may not be so impressed.

The Juno mission entered orbit around Jupiter in July 2016.

CU-Boulder faculty, students primed for Juno arrival at Jupiter

June 23, 2016

A group of University of Colorado Boulder faculty and students are anxiously awaiting the arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter July 4, a mission expected to reveal the hidden interior of the gas giant as well as keys to how our solar system formed.

Restoration of the extinct short-faced bear (Arctodus simus). Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

Climate big player in Patagonian ice age mammal extinction 12,000 years ago

June 17, 2016

A study led by the University of Adelaide and including the University of Colorado Boulder indicates giant ice age-era mammals that roamed Patagonia until about 12,300 years ago were finally felled by a rapidly warming climate, not by a sudden onslaught of the first human hunters.

Pain

Narcotic painkillers prolong pain in rats

May 31, 2016

Opioids like morphine have now been shown to paradoxically cause an increase in chronic pain in lab rats, findings that could have far-reaching implications for humans, says a new study led by the University of Colorado Boulder.

Photo of Mississippi River Delta taken by NASA’s Space Shuttle Discovery in early 1985. Photo courtesy NASA.

Human activity degrading world’s large river deltas

Feb. 23, 2016

From the Yellow River in China to the Mississippi River in Louisiana, researchers are racing to better understand and mitigate the degradation of some of the world’s most important river deltas, according to a University of Colorado Boulder faculty member.

A new study involving CU-Boulder and the Chinese Academy of Sciences has confirmed that a flightless bird weighing several hundred pounds roamed Ellesmere Island in the high Arctic about 50 million years ago. Its name is Gastornis. Illustration by Marlin Peterson

Giant flightless bird strolled Arctic 50 million years ago

Feb. 12, 2016

It’s official: There really was a giant, flightless bird with a head the size of a horse’s wandering about in the winter twilight of the high Arctic some 53 million years ago.

Forensic Plant Science book cover

Have a crime to solve? Profs pen a book to help

Jan. 28, 2016

Two longtime University of Colorado Boulder professors who have been using their expertise for decades to help solve crimes, often murder, have teamed up on a new forensic plant science book expected to aid investigators around the world.

An illustration of the giant flightless bird known as Genyornis newtoni, surprised on her nest by a 1 ton, predatory lizard named Megalania prisca in Australia roughly 50,000 years ago. Illustration by Peter Trusler, Monash University.

Ancient extinction of giant bird points to humans

Jan. 28, 2016

The first direct evidence that humans played a substantial role in the extinction of the huge, wondrous beasts inhabiting Australia some 50,000 years ago — in this case a 500-pound bird — has been discovered by a University of Colorado Boulder-led team.

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