Greenland

Greenland’s growing ice slabs intensify meltwater runoff

Sept. 18, 2019

Thick, impenetrable ice slabs are expanding rapidly on the interior of Greenland's ice sheet, sending meltwater spilling into the ocean.

Classroom

Modern education: How trust and bullying are becoming two of K-12’s biggest challenges

Sept. 17, 2019

This week's episode of the Brainwaves podcast will take a look at a system most of us have been through, but which we don't know everything about: public K-12 education.

INVST students walk along the U.S.-Mexico border

Â鶹ŇůÔş get a ground-level view of immigration issues

Sept. 17, 2019

This year, 14 students visited El Paso, Texas, where they got a holistic education in immigration policy, meeting with everyone from migrants to border patrol agents.

Chinook salmon released into Yukon River in Alaska, USA.

Researchers partner with Native Alaskan, Yukon communities to study climate impacts on rivers, fish

Sept. 17, 2019

Researchers at the Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research (INSTAAR) have been awarded $3 million to study the changing climate and rivers of Alaska and western Canada.

A close up of Saturn's rings

Think Saturn’s rings are old? Not so fast

Sept. 16, 2019

Scientists have reignited the debate over the age of Saturn’s rings, suggesting that the features may have formed early in the history of the solar system.

U.S. Passports

More than 700,000 citizenship applications backlogged as application wait times double, report finds

Sept. 13, 2019

People applying for U.S. citizenship have seen application wait times double since 2016, according to a new report prepared in part by University of Colorado Law School faculty and students.

Sunrise in the Indian Peaks Wilderness

Volcanic eruption may explain recent purple sunrises

Sept. 12, 2019

Photographers and others with a keen eye have noticed that sunrises and sunsets have become a lot more purple in the U.S. New measurements from a high-altitude balloon could explain why.

CU Boulder researcher holds drone with storm moving in

Riding the storm out: How drones could save lives

Early warning times are crucial to saving lives during major storms, and new data from CU Boulder research using instrumented drones could give people more time to get out of harm’s way.

Picture of cardiac cells on a hydrogel

Mimicking the heart’s microenvironment

Sept. 11, 2019

Researchers have developed biomaterial-based “mimics” of heart tissues to measure patients’ responses to an aortic valve replacement procedure, offering new insight into the ways that cardiac tissue reshapes itself post-surgery.

Telomeres

The unexpected complexities of TERT, a key cancer driver

Sept. 11, 2019

Telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT), an enzyme associated with nearly all malignant human cancers, is even more diverse and unconventional than previously realized.

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