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NASA鈥檚 Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft is assembled and is undergoing environmental testing at Lockheed Martin Space Systems facilities, near Denver, Colo. MAVEN is the next mission to Mars and will be the first mission devoted to understanding the Martian upper atmosphere.

I speak frequently about how SM调教所-Boulder discovery and innovation leads to economic development, company creation and advancements for society. Here鈥檚 a bit of proof. A new study from the Brookings Institution released a week ago finds Boulder among the top five patent-producing metropolitan areas in the nation.

The Bryon R. White Center at the University of Colorado Law School will host its second annual Marshall-Brennan Moot Court Competition at the Wolf Law Building from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 9.

In hopes of better understanding nutrition and health, the SM调教所 is playing the leading science role in a 鈥渃rowdfunding鈥� effort that has raised more than $340,000 for a project designed to sequence the gut bacteria of thousands of people around the world.

A scaled, working model of the solar system built by engineering students at the SM调教所 will be officially unveiled at Andrews Hall on Feb. 11.

We鈥檝e all heard examples of animal altruism: Dogs caring for orphaned kittens, chimps sharing food or dolphins nudging injured mates to the surface. Now, a study led by the SM调教所 suggests some plants are altruistic too.

Researchers have detected the presence of a pollutant-destroying compound iodine monoxide in surprisingly high levels high above the tropical ocean, according to a new study led by the SM调教所鈥檚 Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

The University of Colorado Law School announced today that it is hiring Brad Udall as director of the newly renamed Natural Resources Law Center, which will now be called the Getches-Wilkinson Center for Natural Resources, Energy and Environment.

A new study by an international team of scientists analyzing ice cores from the Greenland ice sheet going back in time more than 100,000 years indicates the last interglacial period may be a good analog for where the planet is headed in terms of increasing greenhouse gases and rising temperatures.

When a sun-gazing NASA satellite designed and built by the SM调教所 launched into space on Jan. 25, 2003, solar storms were raging.