Shalaya Kipp conducts a treadmill study in the Locomotion Lab at CU

Slower runners benefit most from high-tech shoes, other elite methods

Feb. 11, 2019

How much do high-tech shoes, special diets and exercises, drafting behind other runners and other strategies actually improve your finish time? A new study spells it out. The takeaway: The faster you are, the harder it is to get faster.

MAVEN spacecraft

MAVEN ushers in new era by tapping the brakes

Feb. 11, 2019

NASA's atmosphere-sniffing spacecraft will begin a series of maneuvers to tighten its orbit around the Red Planet and prepare for the arrival of the 2020 Mars rover.

Greenland ice sheet

Sand from glacial melt could be Greenland’s economic salvation

Feb. 11, 2019

As climate change melts Greenland’s glaciers and deposits more river sediment on its shores, international researchers have identified an unforeseen economic opportunity: exporting excess sand and gravel abroad.

Caster Semenya at the 2012 London Olympics

Testosterone limits for female athletes based on flawed science

Feb. 8, 2019

New international rules would require some elite female athletes to medically lower their testosterone levels in order to be able to compete among women. But a new study contends those rules are based on flawed science.

House for sale several feet under the water

Rising tides can sink property values

Two CU Boulder assistant professors discovered the perception of coastal properties exposed to sea-level rise can affect real-world markets.

Students affiliated with CU Boulder's Intermountain Neuroimaging Consortium teach elementary school students about the brain

Creating brain awareness in eastern Colorado

Feb. 5, 2019

CU Boulder's neuroscience outreach program will be teaching students from 11 school districts about the brain and how it functions.

Photo of Norlin Library's west face.

Libraries join work on Library of Congress conservation project

Feb. 4, 2019

CU Boulder is part of a major national effort to assess the physical health of books across American research libraries.

McMurdo Dry Valleys

A water quality mystery, solved in Antarctica

Feb. 1, 2019

Scientists have developed a possible answer to a longstanding mystery about the chemistry of streamflow, which may have broad implications for watersheds and water quality around the world.

Woman sleeps in dark room

How chronic pain threatens a good night’s sleep

Jan. 31, 2019

The first-of-its-kind study found that when people don’t sleep, they feel pain more acutely; but the pain may be keeping them awake, thanks to a neural glitch in sleep-deprived brains.

Swarm of bees in a tree

What a bundle of buzzing bees can teach engineers about robotic materials

Jan. 29, 2019

How do swarms of bees maintain collective stability in the face of something like strong wind? What if engineers could take these lessons from nature and apply them to buildings? Assistant Professor of Computer Science Orit Peleg shares on The Conversation.

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