Prashant Nagpal

These nano-bugs eat CO2 and make eco-friendly fuel

June 11, 2019

Engineers have developed nanobio-hybrid organisms capable of producing a variety of plastics and fuels, a promising first step toward low-cost carbon sequestration and eco-friendly manufacturing for chemicals.

An artist's depiction of a superflare on an alien star.

Rare 鈥榮uperflares鈥 could one day threaten Earth

June 10, 2019

New research shows that the sun could experience a massive burst of energy called a superflare sometime in the next several thousand years.

Large boulders in a river

Large boulders help shape huge canyons, researchers find

June 10, 2019

CU 麻豆影院 geology graduate student research argues that boulders play a major role in the geologic evolution of river canyons across vast spans of time.

Rower on the ocean

Human endurance: How we鈥檙e pushing our bodies to new limits with new tech and no tech

June 5, 2019

An early investor in FitBit, a researcher on energy-saving shoes and an athlete who is solo rowing across the Atlantic give us the latest on tracking and breaking our bodies鈥 limits in this episode of the Brainwaves podcast.

A family in Rwanda using a wood-burning cookstove as part of a large-scale delivery program

Engineers deliver water filters, cookstoves to improve health in Rwanda

June 3, 2019

A large-scale program to deliver water filters and portable biomass-burning cookstoves to Rwandan homes improved health among children, new research finds.

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7 innovative schools that beat the odds

May 31, 2019

CU 麻豆影院 is helping to recognize schools that get creative to meet the needs of their students鈥攆rom teaching young learners Native American languages to giving them a chance to get up close with birds in the wild.

Researcher works with cyanobacteria, a green substance, in beaker

Futuristic 鈥榣iving鈥 buildings use bacteria, not bricks

What if buildings could 鈥渃ome alive鈥 by being constructed with hybrid materials that could heal themselves rather than decay and reduce atmospheric carbon rather than contribute to it?

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Human Performance Summit explores apex of mind, body, spirit

May 30, 2019

CU recently hosted nearly 250 participants from the military, athletic, investment, scientific and entrepreneurial communities for a day-long exploration of where the limits of human performance lie and how to push those limits.

Microscopic view of light bending around a big atom

Scientists offer designer 鈥榖ig atoms鈥 on demand

May 29, 2019

Physicists report they can build and control particles that behave like tiny atoms with a precision never seen before.

Singers and faculty workshop a new piece in the CU New Opera Workshop

CU New Opera Workshop celebrates 10 years with Tom Cipullo work

May 29, 2019

Eklund Opera鈥檚 trailblazing intensive workshop has been the perfect playground for composers with in-progress operas for a decade. For 2019, Cipullo brings his new piece 鈥淗obson鈥檚 Choice鈥 to the program.

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