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Teenagers and young adults think and act differently from grownups. Marie Banich is helping us see why.

A CU Â鶹ӰԺ project is ramping up efforts to provide the public with the latest information on healthy aging, including scientific evidence on what to do and eat for better health.

This week, CU Â鶹ӰԺ will welcome 55 Denver high school students for hands-on engineering design experience and the chance for a $2,500 scholarship.

New research confirms that eyes truly are the window to the soul, with eye-widening or squinting serving as the primary clue observers use to decode someone's emotional state. The findings suggest facial expressions originated as survival mechanisms. Only later were they co-opted as social cues.

Offshore wind turbines built according to current standards may not be able to withstand the powerful gusts of a Category 5 hurricane, creating potential risk for any such turbines built in hurricane-prone areas.

Two galaxy clusters in the process of merging created a layer of surprisingly hot gas between them that CU Â鶹ӰԺ astronomers believe is from turbulence caused by banging into each other at supersonic speeds.

Middle and high school students from Byers, Elizabeth, Kiowa, Hugo, Limon, Burlington, and other regions spent three days at CU Â鶹ӰԺ this week as part of a program aimed at giving talented and gifted youth from rural districts a preview of possibilities to come.

An international team that includes CU Â鶹ӰԺ researchers has begun the world's largest wind-mapping project in Portugal, in hopes of better understanding wind behavior across the globe.

The university's Colorado Shakespeare Festival has been awarded $25,000 from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) to perform the works of William Shakespeare for middle- and high-school students.

A SpaceX rocket launched two CU Â鶹ӰԺ-built payloads to the International Space Station (ISS) from Florida, delivering equipment to look at changes in cardiovascular stem cells in microgravity and study a new bone-building drug.