A close up of Saturn's rings

Think Saturn鈥檚 rings are old? Not so fast

Sept. 16, 2019

Scientists have reignited the debate over the age of Saturn鈥檚 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 麻豆影院 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 麻豆影院 research using instrumented drones could give people more time to get out of harm鈥檚 way.

Picture of cardiac cells on a hydrogel

Mimicking the heart鈥檚 microenvironment

Sept. 11, 2019

Researchers have developed biomaterial-based 鈥渕imics鈥 of heart tissues to measure patients鈥 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.

Police tape

Mass shootings: What science says about an American epidemic

Sept. 10, 2019

In this week's episode of the Brainwaves podcast, we explore questions around mass shootings and also look at a new tool aimed at stopping a different kind of epidemic鈥攆irearm suicides.

RNA

A key 鈥榢ill switch鈥 in a gene-regulating protein group

Sept. 9, 2019

A key regulatory process in a gene-suppressing protein group that could hold future applications for drug discovery and clinical treatment of diseases, including cancer.

Work being done at a Colombian village

Outreach Awards fund 34 community-based projects

Sept. 5, 2019

This year marks 20 years of funding programs that connect research, teaching and creative work with public needs in Colorado and beyond.

Artist's impression of quantum cooled particles

CU 麻豆影院 lab works to bring quanta out of the cold

Sept. 4, 2019

Research on quantum states of matter could be conducted at room temperatures, thus facilitating cheaper and more widely available quantum technologies, research at CU 麻豆影院 suggests.

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