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Space instruments provide early warnings for solar flares

June 21, 2024

On June 25, the last instrument in a series designed and built in Colorado, is scheduled to launch aboard an orbiting satellite. It's part of a program that spots flares leaping out from around the sun before they can cause trouble on Earth.

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It’s Dark Sky Month in Colorado. Here’s how to enjoy the stars

June 21, 2024

Light pollution from streetlights and other sources is making dark skies harder to find. °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ astronomer Erica Ellingson gives her take on where you can still go in Colorado to see brilliant displays of stars.

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°ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ wins $20M to lead National Quantum Nanofab facility

June 20, 2024

A new facility will give researchers from Colorado and across the country a space to think up and design devices that tap into the world of atoms and even smaller things—potentially leading to new sensors, ultra-fast computer chips and more.

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Wear it, then recycle: Designers make dissolvable textiles from gelatin

June 17, 2024

Researchers at the ATLAS Institute at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ hope their DIY machine will help designers around the world experiment with making their own, sustainable fashion and other textiles from a range of natural ingredients—maybe even the chitin in crab shells or agar-agar from algae.

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Meeting the needs of Colorado’s ‘newcomer’ K-12 students

June 12, 2024

This year, schools across Colorado experienced an influx of students, many of them migrants from Latin and South America. A small but dedicated group of scholars at °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ are helping teachers meet the needs of these new arrivals.

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As Paris preps for Olympics, Coloradans still feel ambivalent about hosting

June 11, 2024

In the 1970s, Denver became the first and only city to be named an Olympics host, then later back out. A new study shows that Colorado’s feelings about the Games remain complicated today.

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In new experiment, scientists record Earth’s radio waves from the moon

June 10, 2024

Odysseus, a tenacious lander built by the company Intuitive Machines, almost didn't make it to the moon. But an experiment aboard the spacecraft managed to capture an image of Earth as it might look to observers on a planet far from our own.

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Gov. Jared Polis signs quantum industry bill on campus

May 30, 2024

At a ceremony May 28 on the °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ campus, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ushered in a new bill to support the state’s rapidly growing quantum industry.

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Solar physicists unlock the key to how sunspots form—and much more

May 22, 2024

In 1612, astronomer Galileo Galilei observed dark splotches can sunspots moving across the face of the sun. A new study could reveal the engine that drives these cloudy features, and much of the sun's volatile activity.

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In South Africa, tiny primates could struggle to adapt to climate change

May 7, 2024

Researchers led by °ÄÃÅ¿ª½±½á¹û2023¿ª½±¼Ç¼ primatologist Michelle Sauther walked the paths of the Lajuma Research Centre in South Africa at night, keeping an eye out for the glowing eyes of galago primates, or bushbabies. The team's findings reveal troubling hints about how small animals may adapt to extreme temperatures.

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