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While a huge earthquake off the coast of Chile triggered a tsunami that moved at the speed of a jet aircraft across the Pacific Ocean Feb. 27, the tsunami was smaller than scientists expected, said a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ earthquake expert.

A new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study shows mice infected with the bacteria salmonella develop clinical signs consistent with a deadly and poorly understood human inflammatory disease, a finding that may lead to new therapies.

Â鶹ӰԺ 150 University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ students will spend their spring break vacations in service-learning programs helping people manage chronic disease through nutrition, serving as youth camp counselors teaching kids about the environment or taking part in one of eight other projects around the country.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ is urging students to exercise caution during spring break whether they remain in town, travel elsewhere in the country or go abroad.

A new University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ study indicates North American barn swallows outperform their peers in reproduction -- the "currency" of evolutionary change -- by maintaining a positive balance of antioxidants commonly sold in health food stores.

University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ Interim Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Stein Sture has announced the commencement of a national search for the next dean of the Leeds School of Business at CU-Â鶹ӰԺ.

An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding "the very origin of Earthly life," the lead researcher contends.

Mass media have been a key vehicle by which climate change contrarianism has traveled, according to Maxwell Boykoff, a University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ professor and fellow of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, or CIRES.

For nearly half a century, scientists have been trying to figure out how to build a cost-effective and reasonably sized X-ray laser that could, among other things, provide super high-resolution imaging. And for the past two decades, University of Colorado at Â鶹ӰԺ physics professors Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn have been inching closer to that goal.

Researchers who devised the largest earthquake preparedness event ever undertaken in the United States say one of the biggest challenges was translating devastation projections from a hypothetical magnitude 7.8 San Andreas Fault temblor into timely, usable information to the more than 5 million California participants in 2008.