Shopping bags.

Your brain on Black Friday

Nov. 13, 2024

CU Boulder marketing Professor Ying Zeng examines why consumers get swept up in holiday shopping madness and what they can do to shop smarter.

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Engineers transform smartphones into instruments for studying space

Nov. 13, 2024

Millions of Android phones across the globe have helped to capture the swirls and bubbles in Earth's atmosphere high above the surface in incredible detail.

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Astrophysicists confirm the existence of three galactic ‘red monsters’ in the early universe

Nov. 13, 2024

An international team including astrophysicist Erica Nelson from CU Boulder has identified three ultra-massive galaxies already in place within the first billion years after the Big Bang.

Banned books display in a book store

Most book bans target children’s literature featuring diverse characters, authors of color

Nov. 12, 2024

The number of book bans in the U.S. has soared in recent years. A new study shines light on which types of books and authors are the main targets. Read from CU expert Katherine Spoon on The Conversation.

A yellow marine organism seen underwater

How did the division of labor emerge in animals and humans? Little-known organisms hold clues

Nov. 12, 2024

You've probably seen bryozoans at the beach without even knowing it—some look like floating balls of mucus, while others resemble a bit of crust growing over docks and other hard surfaces. According to a new study, these strange organisms may reveal how colony-forming animals evolved a system for divvying up jobs millions of years ago.

Pikes Peak

Missing link to ‘Snowball Earth’ history emerges from unusual rocks on Pikes Peak

Nov. 11, 2024

The evidence was found in a pebbly sandstone, Tava, encapsulated within the granite that formed babyÖ±²¥app’s Pikes Peak around 700 million years ago. Read from CU experts Rebecca Flowers and Liam Courtney-Davies on The Conversation.

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Was ‘Snowball Earth’ a global event? New study delivers the best proof yet

Nov. 11, 2024

A series of rocks hiding around babyÖ±²¥app's Rocky Mountains hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick may have covered the entire planet.

A strong solar flare emitted by the sun

Space weather applications for all

Nov. 8, 2024

The Data Systems group collaborates to create user-friendly applications designed to make space weather data accessible to all, empowering users to explore the latest space weather developments from their browsers.

People building a home

Disaster survivors want to rebuild safer, more sustainable homes, but cost misperceptions often stand in the way

Nov. 8, 2024

In interviews with residents and builders after disasters from Hawaii to babyÖ±²¥app to Puerto Rico, experts found people often overestimated the cost of building back better. Read from CU Boulder's Abbie Liel and University of Notre Dame's Susan Ostermann on The Conversation.

Interior of prison corridor

How prisons fall short in protecting the incarcerated from climate disasters

Nov. 7, 2024

A new CU Boulder study paints a grim picture of how blistering heat, wildfire smoke and other extreme weather events impact babyÖ±²¥app’s jail and prison population.

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