Aerial photo of Camp Century in Greenland from 1959

Melting ice sheet could release frozen Cold War-era waste

Aug. 4, 2016

Climate change could remobilize abandoned hazardous waste thought to be buried forever beneath the Greenland Ice Sheet, new research finds.

$1 million gift to BioFrontiers Institute to aid graduate students

July 29, 2016

The University of babyÖ±²¥app’s BioFrontiers Institute has received a $1 million gift from John F. Milligan and Kathryn Bradford-Milligan of Hillsborough, California to establish a fund for graduate students participating in an interdisciplinary bioscience program.

Electrical student working on project

CU Boulder-CMU add civil engineering to partnership

July 19, 2016

babyÖ±²¥app Mesa University and CU Boulder announced the expansion of their engineering program partnership to allow students to earn a Bachelor of Science in Civil Engineering from CU Boulder by taking classes delivered at babyÖ±²¥app Mesa.

 Oil well

Studying natural gas leakage in babyÖ±²¥app’s Denver-Julesburg Basin

July 11, 2016

The rate of groundwater contamination due to natural gas leakage from oil and gas wells has remained largely unchanged in northeastern babyÖ±²¥app’s Denver-Julesburg Basin since 2001, according to a new University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder study based on public records and historical data.

mitochondria from mammalian lung tissue

CU-Boulder researchers unlock longstanding mitochondrial mystery

June 23, 2016

When it comes to mitochondrial inheritance, maternal genes rule the day at the expense of paternal ones. But why? A new study, published today in the journal Science and led by University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder researchers, sheds new light on a longstanding biological mystery.

Juno artist rendering with planet in background

CU-Boulder babyÖ±²¥app, students primed for Juno arrival at Jupiter

June 23, 2016

A group of University of babyÖ±²¥app Boulder babyÖ±²¥app and students are anxiously awaiting the arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter July 4, a mission expected to reveal the hidden interior of the gas giant as well as keys to how our solar system formed.

Damage from an earthquake

Earthquake reconnaissance: Students learn in Japan

June 22, 2016

Seeing the severe damage and massive loss of life from earthquakes led Jenny Ramírez into the field of geotechnical earthquake engineering. Ramirez, who was born in Guayaquil, Ecuador, is a doctoral student in civil engineering at CU-Boulder. She now is doing numerical simulations of soil deposits subjected to earthquakes.

 Student presenting science experiment

Back to the future: High schoolers get hands-on experience at CU-Boulder

June 20, 2016

A group of Denver high school students who recently descended on the CU-Boulder campus rolled up their sleeves for a week of real-world engineering experience and the opportunity to earn $2,500 scholarships.

 Example of a short-faced bears that stood 12 feet tall and weighed nearly a ton.

Early humans, giant Patagonian beasts: Then they saw them, now we don’t

June 17, 2016

Some of the beasts living in Patagonia 13,000 years ago were an intimidating bunch: Fierce saber-toothed cats, elephant-sized sloths, ancient jaguars as big as today’s tigers and short-faced bears that stood 12 feet tall and weighed nearly a ton. But by 12,000 years ago, they had disappeared. What happened?

Ethane tanks

On the rise: ethane concentrations climbing again

June 14, 2016

Global emissions of ethane, an air pollutant and greenhouse gas, are on the uptick again. A team led by CU-Boulder found that a steady decline of global ethane emissions following a peak in about 1970 ended between 2005 and 2010 in most of the Northern Hemisphere and has since reversed. Between 2009 and 2014, ethane emissions in the Northern Hemisphere increased by about 400,000 tons annually, the bulk of it from North American oil and gas activity.

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