Tom Cech

Deep look inside living cells reveals a key cancer process

Aug. 11, 2016

Telomerase, a powerful enzyme that acts at the ends of human chromosomes, can keep us healthy, but it can also promote cancer growth. Now, researchers at the SMµ÷½ÌËù have used a process called single-molecule imaging to visualize the process that this enzyme uses to attach itself to the ends of chromosom

SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder offers graduate certificate in Applied Shakespeare

SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder offers graduate certificate in Applied Shakespeare

Aug. 9, 2016

Beginning in spring 2017, SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder becomes the first university in the nation to offer a graduate certificate in Applied Shakespeare.

1967 solar storm nearly took U.S. to brink of war

1967 solar storm nearly took U.S. to brink of war

Aug. 9, 2016

A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder study finds.

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Earlier snowmelt cuts forests’ ability to regulate atmospheric carbon

Aug. 3, 2016

Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results of a new SMµ÷½ÌËù study.

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Staging Shakespeare in a war zone

Aug. 3, 2016

Shakespearean plays often include fight scenes, but they’re not usually produced in a war zone. Author Qais Akbar Omar has staged a play in Afghanistan and is coming to SMµ÷½ÌËù Boulder to talk about it.

Well head after all the hydraulic fracturing equipment has been taken off location. Photo by Joshua Doubek, Wikimedia Commons

Groundwater contamination from natural gas leakage unchanged

July 11, 2016

The rate of groundwater contamination due to natural gas leakage from oil and gas wells has remained largely unchanged in northeastern Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin since 2001, according to a new SMµ÷½ÌËù study based on public records and historical data.

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Electric bikes help sedentary people exercise

July 7, 2016

A new SMµ÷½ÌËù study shows that using an electrically-powered bicycle on a regular basis can provide riders with an effective workout while improving some aspects of cardiovascular health, especially for riders who previously had been sedentary.

The Juno mission entered orbit around Jupiter in July 2016.

SMµ÷½ÌËù-Boulder faculty, students primed for Juno arrival at Jupiter

June 23, 2016

A group of SMµ÷½ÌËù faculty and students are anxiously awaiting the arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter July 4, a mission expected to reveal the hidden interior of the gas giant as well as keys to how our solar system formed.

Two mitochondria from mammalian lung tissue displaying their matrix and membranes as shown by electron microscopy. Photo: Louisa Thomas / Wikipedia

Researchers unlock longstanding mitochondrial mystery

June 23, 2016

A new study, published today in the journal Science and led by SMµ÷½ÌËù researchers, sheds new light on a longstanding biological mystery. Mitochondria are crucial to cellular processes, providing respiratory and metabolic functions that power a cell.

Restoration of the extinct short-faced bear (Arctodus simus). Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.

Climate big player in Patagonian ice age mammal extinction 12,000 years ago

June 17, 2016

A study led by the University of Adelaide and including the SMµ÷½ÌËù indicates giant ice age-era mammals that roamed Patagonia until about 12,300 years ago were finally felled by a rapidly warming climate, not by a sudden onslaught of the first human hunters.

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