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Duckweed is an incredible,听radiation-fighting听astronaut food鈥攁nd by changing how it is grown, we made it听better

July 17, 2020

Duckweed is the perfect space food: small, fast-growing and nutritious. By studying how light levels changed the production of radiation-fighting antioxidants, researchers made it even better. Professor Barbara Demmig-Adams shares on The Conversation.

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Bringing Jewish history and culture to Colorado communities

July 15, 2020

Holocaust memory, social justice, food and American legal history take center stage this summer as part of a newly reimagined Peak to Peak series.

The assembled Hope spacecraft sitting in a clean room.

Emirates Mars Mission to begin journey to the red planet

July 15, 2020

Researchers from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) worked side-by-side with teams from the United Arab Emirates to help them make this history-making mission a reality.

A component in an extreme ultraviolet laser.

Scientists open new window into the nanoworld

July 15, 2020

Physicists at JILA achieve new feats of wafer-thinness in a study published this week.

A silhouette of Washington's logo with an asterisk.

How a CU law professor helped change Washington鈥檚 football mascot

July 13, 2020

Carla Fredericks, an associate professor of law, helped organize a campaign that changed the NFL.

A view of the Flatirons from Chautauqua (Photo by Glenn Asakawa/University of Colorado)

Silicon Flatirons, Startup Colorado to launch policy academy for rural entrepreneurs

July 10, 2020

A collaborative group out of the University of Colorado Law School will develop and execute a three-day entrepreneurial policy academy for rural entrepreneurs and leaders in Colorado.

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Native bees also facing novel pandemic

July 9, 2020

There is growing evidence that another 鈥減andemic" has been infecting bees around the world for the past two decades and is spreading鈥揳 fungal pathogen known as Nosema.

Woman sits in an airport while wearing a mask.

Experts weigh in on airborne transmission of COVID-19

July 9, 2020

After 239 scientists signed on to a letter arguing that the coronavirus can go airborne, the World Health Organization updated its public health guidelines.

A graphic showing the orbits of dark, icy bodies that tilt out of the plane of the solar system

The collective power of the solar system鈥檚 dark, icy bodies

July 7, 2020

Two new studies by researchers at CU 麻豆影院 may help to solve one of space鈥檚 biggest mysteries: why the solar system鈥檚 鈥渄etached objects鈥 don鈥檛 circle the sun the way they should.

Cells under a microscope

How does a stem cell know what to become? Study shows RNA plays key role

July 7, 2020

If each human cell has the same blueprint, or set of genes, why does an eye cell look and act differently than a brain cell or skin cell? New research moves science one step closer to solving this mystery, potentially leading to new treatments for cancer, heart abnormalities and more.

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