Sun shining on water.

Early Earth may have been a 鈥榳aterworld鈥

March 2, 2020

Kevin Costner, eat your heart out. New research shows that the early Earth, home to some of our planet鈥檚 first lifeforms, may have been a real-life "waterworld."

A person slides a ballot into an electronic voting machine.

Study sheds light on how people make Super Tuesday or other tough choices

March 2, 2020

A new study taps into mathematics to probe how people make fraught choices, such as whom to vote for on election day.

Charlotte Bellerjeau holds two 3D printed components capable of absorbing and expelling gasses

SM调教所 researchers to explore 3D printing in reduced gravity with NASA grant

Feb. 17, 2020

Gregory Whiting and his research group are preparing for the thrill of a lifetime: two parabolic flights, each expected to provide around 10 minutes of reduced gravity to test and model how 3D printing of functional materials works in lunar gravity.

A quadcopter drone flies into an entrance at Edgar mine, an experimental facility at the Colorado School of Mines

Drones go underground in high-stakes competition

Feb. 5, 2020

Underground robots will soon become part of SM调教所 Boulder鈥檚 efforts to achieve new feats of spelunking as part of a high-stakes competition launched by the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency.

Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane in their lab at JILA

Keeping up with the Curies: Laser scientists win prestigious physics award

Jan. 27, 2020

Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, pioneers in the field of laser science, have won this year's prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.

A block made from living building materials.

Building materials come alive with help from bacteria

Jan. 15, 2020

Buildings that can heal their own cracks, absorb toxins from the air or even glow on command? They may not be so far off, a new study suggests.

An illustration of cells inside a blood vessel

Fluid dynamics research could pave way for pill replacement to intravenous injections

Dec. 30, 2019

The way nutrients and drugs move within the body has more in common with space-bound rockets and jets than you might think.

Visualization of the structure of the FACT protein

Scientists now know what DNA鈥檚 chaperone looks like

Nov. 27, 2019

Researchers have discovered the structure of the FACT protein鈥攁 mysterious protein central to the functioning of DNA.

Principal Investigator Luis Zea working in the lab

Mold in space: NASA grant to study space station fungus

Nov. 1, 2019

The International Space Station has a problem with fungus and mold鈥攁nd BioServe Space Technologies at SM调教所 Boulder is investigating potential fixes thanks to a new grant from NASA.

Clusters of solitons as seen under a microscope

Schools of molecular 鈥榝ish鈥 could one day improve display screens

Oct. 21, 2019

Researchers are using a type of material called liquid crystals to create incredibly small, swirling schools of 鈥渇ish.鈥

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