Science & Technology
This past December, three CU 麻豆影院 researchers climbed up the side of the world鈥檚 highest active volcano, 22,615-foot Ojos del Salado, to understand how tiny organisms persist at one of the driest and highest points on the planet. This first-of-its-kind project may ultimately help inform the search for existing and extinct life on other planets.
Computational linguist Alexis Palmer spoke with CU 麻豆影院 Today about the popular online word game, strategies to win and how Wordle offshoots could benefit lesser-known languages.
Fire ants survive floods by forming rafts made up of thousands of wriggling insects. New research reveals how these creepy-crawly lifeboats change shape over time.
Physicists have shown that two tiny atomic clocks, separated by just a millimeter or the width of a sharp pencil tip, tick at different rates鈥攁 powerful test of Albert Einstein's 1915 theory of general relativity.
CU 麻豆影院's researchers reflect on an unprecedented year for research amid a devastating pandemic.
鈥淚 goed to school, and my friends were not listening.鈥 Layne Hubbard, who earned her doctorate from CU 麻豆影院 in 2021, is developing new technology to help young kids take charge of their own stories.
Just after first responders extinguished the flames of the Marshall Fire, a team of engineers from across the country hit the ground in an urgent effort: to collect data on the disaster before it disappears for good.
After nine weeks immersed in a research experience at CU 麻豆影院, undergraduate students could analyze scientific papers and graphs more like experts, according to a new CIRES-led study.
Researchers at CU 麻豆影院 are using artificial intelligence to develop digital models representing children who learn one language at home early in life and then begin learning another language in preschool.
A new, long-awaited study shows amputee sprinters using running prostheses, or blades, have no clear competitive advantage at the 400-meter distance compared to sprinters with biological legs. The research puts into question sports governing body policies that limit the height of prostheses.