Science & Technology
- Bridget Barrett, a College of Media, Communication and Information expert, offers advice on taking back your phone this election season.
- Colorado’s burgeoning role in the quantum revolution was in the spotlight as U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves made an official visit to CU Boulder and JILA, a joint institute of CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
- If there’s anything that unites humans, it’s kicking back with a cool pint, says Travis Rupp, also known as the “Beer Archaeologist.” He weighs in on the age-old practice in the inaugural edition of CUriosity, a new series from CU Boulder Today.
- A new, wide-ranging exploration of human remains casts doubt on a long-standing theory in archaeology known as the Kurgan hypothesis—which, among other claims, suggests that humans first domesticated horses as early as the fourth millennium B.C.
- Professor Hendrik Heinz and his CU Boulder team, along with collaborators from the University of California, Los Angeles, achieved a breakthrough that could boost clean energy production.
- Assistant Professor Huck Bennett is working to keep data safe from hackers when the quantum revolution comes.
- Zach Sunberg’s research developing better artificial intelligence systems is getting a major boost from two federal grant awards.
- Orit Peleg will receive a total of up to $2.5 million over five years to pursue the origins of animal communication and how it influences the group cognition of social animals.
- Jessica Rush Leeker has received a $2 million National Science Foundation grant to advance her research on creating learning resources that promote the participation of Black families in engineering.
- Nuclear clocks, a new kind of quantum technology, could lead to improved timekeeping and navigation, faster internet speeds and advances in fundamental physics research.