Science & Health
With at least eight institutions dedicated to solar and space physics, the city of Boulder is a global mecca for science related to the sun.
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A CU team froze their ship in Arctic ice in the name of science and storytelling. When the sea ice shifted beneath him, sending a crack straight between his two feet, Matthew Shupe didn’t panic.He calmly looked at his precious scientific
Reneé Crown Wellness InstituteThe Renée Crown Wellness Institute at CU Boulder opened in 2019 to perform research and offer programs that develop healthy young people and the adults who support them. It recently unveiled
CU Boulder computer science assistant professor Mirela Alistar wants to make healthcare more personal. Her work with microfluidic biochips is getting us there.
Eating less may help the body age more slowly. Rather than promote starvation, CU researchers are testing a nutritional supplement that mimics the same effects of caloric restriction.
Giordan Thompson (MechEngr’20) was one of 21 CU Boulder engineering students enrolled in the Maymester course, "Medicine in Space and Surface Environments," focused on aerospace engineering, human physiology and medicine. For one week of the three-
CU scientists have been involved in learning about our neighbor in the solar system since at least the 1960s.
It had been nearly 40 years since John R. Conway had visited Colorado’s Garden of the Gods. He hadn’t come for the scenery — he’d come for the ants.
