Camille Paige, a researcher at the BioFrontiers Institute, spits into a tube to demonstrate how SickStick works.

Scientists developing COVID-19 test that knows you鈥檙e sick before you do

April 15, 2020

Imagine a test that could tell you if you were infected with COVID-19 before you had a single symptom. SickStick may offer that chance.

Detail from a document called the Grolier Codex.

Solving the case of the lost Maya codex

April 15, 2020

An artifact discovered in 1965 may have been a long-rumored fourth Maya codex. It may also have been a forgery. Archaeologist Gerardo Guti茅rrez and his colleagues were on the case.

Photo of Lori Peek

COVID-19: A 鈥榯ransformative鈥 moment for social science

April 15, 2020

CU Boulder鈥檚 Natural Hazards Center has launched a global registry and is sharing grant opportunities to support social science research during the COVID-19 pandemic

Cells expressing a nuclear marker (H2B) in cyan, a cell-cycle protein (Cyclin D1) in yellow and a proliferation marker (CDK2 activity sensor) in magenta.

To divide or not to divide? The mother cell may decide

April 15, 2020

Researchers at CU Boulder have found that it鈥檚 the mother cell that determines if its daughter cells will divide

1918

Six lessons we can learn from past pandemics

April 9, 2020

鈥淓pidemics highlight the fault lines in our society,鈥 says CU Boulder history Professor Elizabeth Fenn, a Pulitizer Prize winning writer and scholar of epidemics.

Maureen McNamara

Nobel winner sparks senior鈥檚 love of space medicine

March 31, 2020

鈥業 fell in love with space that day. I didn鈥檛 even know I liked space,鈥 student Maureen McNamara notes

Carolina Chickadee

Understanding evolution, one chickadee at a time

March 25, 2020

A CU Boulder researcher has received a $1.75 million NSF grant to study chickadee hybrids

COVID19 live stream

Baptism by Zoom, now taking off, has deep historical roots

March 24, 2020

Faith leaders are coming up with new ways to reach their communities, with many turning to online platforms to perform rituals.

Screen shot of colorful dancing crystals

Parading crystals could usher in new generation of electronics

March 11, 2020

Researchers at CU Boulder found that when electricity is applied to 鈥榯orons,鈥 they celebrate like they鈥檙e at carnival

Soil and mountains

New grant crumbles mysteries of the soil

Feb. 27, 2020

Two CU Boulder projects are this year鈥檚 winners of the Signals in the Soil grants.

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