Rumex crispus, or curly dock

Curly dock has all the traits of a super weed

May 28, 2024

With high levels of oxalic acid, like that in Brussels sprouts, and with a proliferation of seed dispersal, the plant easily establishes itself everywhere except Greenland.

Clare Gallagher by sculpture at UN treaty session

Scholar has a front-row seat to the global fight against plastic pollution

May 28, 2024

CU Boulder PhD student Clare Gallagher finds reason for hope amid the complexities of negotiations to craft a U.N. treaty addressing a worldwide crisis.

CCNY basketball players accused of bribery

Learning lessons from historic sports-betting scandals

May 28, 2024

Sports gambling creates a windfall, but raises questions of integrity, says CU Boulder researcher Jared Bahir Browsh.

illustration of planet Venus losing water

As hot as a pizza oven and dry as a desert

May 24, 2024

Venus is losing water faster than previously thought—here’s what that could mean for the early planet’s habitability.

Person walking in rain with umbrella

Goodbye, El Niño, and hello, La Niña

May 24, 2024

La Niña is coming, raising the chances of a dangerous Atlantic hurricane season—an atmospheric scientist explains this climate phenomenon.

Blair Seidlitz

Physicist’s dissertation gets top marks from American Physical Society

May 24, 2024

Blair Seidlitz, now a postdoctoral researcher at Columbia University, studied near-collisions of nuclear beams at the Large Hadron Collider in Switzerland, and he did so despite having severely limited vision.

Liam Downey and book cover of The Violent Underpinnings of American Society

Violence underpins American life, sociologist contends

May 22, 2024

In new book, CU Boulder researcher Liam Downey argues that different forms of violence produce both consent to the social order and divisions among subordinate social groups, which helps to maintain the power and wealth of economic and political elites.

grizzly bear in a field

Advocating for more conservation than the bear minimum

May 21, 2024

CU researcher argues that setting minimum targets for wildlife conservation inevitably excludes other worthwhile goals, including restoration and ecosystem management.

Heatmap showing frog infected with trematodes

Not just a fluke: learning more about trematode infection

May 20, 2024

Using heatmaps, CU Boulder researchers find that certain parasites congregate in certain parts of amphibians’ bodies, often to dire physical consequences.

Jesse Stommel and Undoing the Grade book cover

English alum flunks grades in new book

May 15, 2024

Jesse Stommel compiles two decades of eyebrow-raising in Undoing the Grade: Why We Grade, and How to Stop.

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