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New $25-million center to advance quantum science and engineering

July 21, 2020

A new National Science Foundation center led by JILA will seek to bring quantum technologies out of the lab and into the real world.

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.

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.

Reddit logo cracking down the middle

As the coronavirus spread, 2 social media communities drifted apart

July 2, 2020

Researchers are exploring the tale of two online communities and their response to COVID-19: the r/Coronavirus and r/China_flu discussion boards on the social media site Reddit.

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Ancient societies hold lessons for modern cities

June 19, 2020

Today鈥檚 modern cities, from Denver to Dubai, could learn a thing or two from the ancestral Pueblo communities that once stretched across the southwestern United States. For starters, the more people live together, the better the living standards.

Teacher in classroom with student wearing virtual reality goggles.

New master鈥檚 degree in teacher leadership aims to address Colorado鈥檚 rural teacher shortage

June 18, 2020

A new online master鈥檚 degree program seeks to support Colorado's teachers so that they'll stay in the classroom.

A sign announces the closure of an ice cream shop in Denver at the height of the coronavirus pandemic.

Mathematician on the front lines of Colorado鈥檚 coronavirus response

June 12, 2020

David Bortz is a member of Colorado's COVID-19 Modeling Team, a group of researchers from across the state who have assembled to get in front of the coronavirus.

Joanna Lambert standing on tree limb and looking through binoculars.

As rare animals disappear, scientist faces 鈥榚cological grief鈥

June 11, 2020

As the wilds around Joanna Lamberts research sites in Africa and North America have vanished, the conservation biologist has struggled to keep hopeful amid the losses.

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