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The U.S. has seen huge wildfires in recent years, and 2024 is no exception. The vast majority of those that affect communities are started by human activity. Read from CU expert Virginia Iglesias on The Conversation.
Nice Jewish men wanting to date non-Jewish women has been a trope of U.S. stage and screen for 100 years. Read from CU expert Samira Mehta on The Conversation.
Thirty years ago, Disney had grand plans to build a history-themed park in Virginia. But efforts to “Disneyfy” American history met staunch opposition, even in the halcyon 1990s. Read from CU expert Jared Bahir Browsh on The Conversation.
A newly amended law may push the country beyond what has been a drawn-out and sluggish process to account for the country’s civil war. Read from CU expert Tracy Fehr on The Conversation.
Just half of survey respondents wanted to continue fighting to regain all Ukrainian territory including Crimea. Read from CU geography expert John O’Loughlin and colleagues on The Conversation.
Plants don’t just grow straight up—they can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. Physicists were able to model a sunflower to predict how they grow. Read from CU expert Chantal Nguyen on The Conversation.
CU expert Julian Resasco visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers—here's what he learned. Read on The Conversation.
New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. Read from CU expert William Taylor on The Conversation.
After wildfires in California and Colorado cities, levels of harmful metals in the water jumped. Nature sent up a red flag. Read from CU expert Lauren Magliozzi on The Conversation.
Privacy comes at a price. The American Privacy Rights Act could undermine small entrepreneurs who rely on targeted digital advertising. Read from CU expert John Lynch and colleague Jean-Pierre Dubé on The Conversation.