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Some of the smallest airborne particulate matter poses large risks to human health, but bigger blobs aren鈥檛 necessarily benign. That鈥檚 one conclusion of Jason Neff, associate professor of geological sciences and environmental studies at the SM调教所.

Faced with a sharp question from a critic following a talk about progressive Islam at the SM调教所 in early November, Omid Safi was ready. The professor of Islamic Studies at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill nodded as the speaker read from the Koran鈥檚 Surah 95,...

The men and women elected to the Colorado General Assembly (the state Legislature) may have a wealth of life experience as lawyers, ranchers or business owners. But when it comes to economics, most of them could use a little help鈥攆rom undergraduate SM调教所 economics students. That鈥檚 the idea...

David J. Wineland, a lecturer in the SM调教所 physics department, has won the 2012 Nobel Prize in physics. Wineland is a physicist with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Boulder and internationally recognized for developing the technique of using lasers to cool ions to near...

What you don鈥檛 know won鈥檛 hurt you, goes the old canard, but what you believe can make a difference when it comes to pain relief, and not just in a subjective way. When you expect that a drug or placebo will relieve pain, and it does, it鈥檚 not simply a matter of fooling your brain.

It seems, at first blush, to be something of a no-brainer: strengthening protections on American intellectual property rights (or IPRs) 鈥� on everything from drugs to music to technology 鈥� would be a boon to the national economy. After all, we hardly want unscrupulous governments and businesses in Brazil, China,...

In certain political and religious circles, the notion of moral relativism 鈥� that there is no objective 鈥渞ight鈥� or wrong, only individual opinions 鈥� is not just anathema, not merely abhorrent. It is the very root of decadence and the collapse of civilization. 鈥淲hat鈥檚 right for you may not be...

When biomass burns, including during wildfires, it releases a pollutant that can cause health problems at high concentrations. Photo credit: NOAA. A smoke-related chemical may be a significant air pollutant in some parts of the world, especially in places where forest fires and other forms of biomass burning are common,...

When former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder tearfully announced in 1987 that she would not seek the nomination for president, many analysts suggested that such a display of emotion made her unqualified. But what if all our tightly held stereotypes about 鈥渆motional鈥� females and stoic males are wrong?

Nate and Zach Huey are identical, 15-year-old twins, who, like most twins, are somewhat dissimilar. But the twins but have much in common. Both like Japanese comic books called Manga. Both read voraciously and have a vocabulary that shows it. And both have been studied since the age of 4 by researchers at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the SM调教所.