A scorpion robot

Toolkit allows broad audience to make artificial muscles

July 15, 2019

Researchers in Assistant Professor Christoph Keplinger鈥檚 lab released a toolkit to show scientists, hobbyists and entrepreneurs how to create their own artificial muscles. They hope this will bring researchers one step closer to developing wearable, surgical and collaborative robots that safely and effectively help humans.

The Hungo Pavi great house in Chaco Canyon

Food may have been scarce in Chaco Canyon

July 10, 2019

Chaco Canyon, a site that was once central to the lives of precolonial peoples called Anasazi, may not have been able to produce enough food to sustain its estimated population numbers.

Geologist Carolyn Crow investigating moon rocks at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston.

A once-in-a-lifetime look at Apollo moon rocks

July 10, 2019

More than 50 years after humans first set foot on the moon, one CU 麻豆影院 researcher will gain access to a cache of never-before-studied lunar rocks.

An illustration of a DNA strand

New drug therapy for cancer treatment based on CU 麻豆影院 research

July 9, 2019

A new drug therapy for cancer treatment, spun out of research performed in a CU 麻豆影院 biochemistry lab, may provide better results for patients with solid cancers and hematologic cancers, such as leukemia and lymphoma.

A garden shovel with dirt on it.

Gardening: How getting dirty planting things has surprising health benefits

July 9, 2019

This week on the Brainwaves podcast: Gardening. It鈥檚 good for your physical health and your food budget. We have an interview with Chris Lowry, an associate professor of integrative physiology at CU 麻豆影院, who wants to make a stress vaccine out of an unseen ingredient hidden deep in the soil.

An ice sheet in Antarctica, which scientists are now better able to measure

A clearer picture of global ice sheets

July 9, 2019

Improvements in satellite imaging and remote sensing equipment have allowed scientists to measure ice mass in greater detail than ever before.

Lara Vimercati examines a nieves penitentes structure on Volc谩n Llullaillaco in Chile

Even in jagged volcanic ice spires, life finds a way

July 8, 2019

High in the Andes Mountains, dagger-shaped ice spires house thriving microbial communities and an oasis for life in one of Earth鈥檚 harshest environments.

Smead Scholar Alex Hirst, a graduate researcher, helps get a drone ready for launch.

The air up there: CU team deploys drones in tornado study

July 3, 2019

CU 麻豆影院 students, faculty and staff are taking part in TORUS鈥攖he largest and most ambitious drone-based investigation of severe thunderstorms ever.

Torin Clark riding an artificial gravity simulator.

Artificial gravity鈥攚ithout the motion sickness

July 2, 2019

Artificial gravity has long been the stuff of science fiction. Picture the wheel-shaped ships from films like 2001: A Space Odyssey and The Martian, imaginary craft that generate their own gravity by spinning around in space. Now, a team from CU 麻豆影院 is working to make those out-there technologies a reality.

Kent Hutchison records a course in 麻豆影院's Chautauqua Park

Bringing commonsense cannabis education to the masses

July 1, 2019

Cannabis researcher and professor Kent Hutchison has teamed up with the global online learning platform Coursera to launch a first-of-its-kind educational specialization 鈥淢edical Cannabis: Health Effects of THC and CBD.鈥

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