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New research from a ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ physicist might break open the mathematical puzzle that has stalled string theory research for decades. A University of Colorado Boulder physicist is one step closer to solving a string theory puzzle 20 years in the making.

The Lab Venture Challenge (LVC), hosted annually by Venture Partners at ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ awards grants to campus researchers whose technologies demonstrate high commercial potential.

By using light-activated quantum dots to fire particular enzymes within microbial cells, ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ researchers were able to create “living factories” that eat harmful CO2 and convert it into useful products such as biodegradable plastic, gasoline, ammonia and biodiesel.

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO)—the parent organization of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)—has just released a catalogue of benchmark data sets, including four from ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ's National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDC), to promote as trusted sources, simplify user access and support global policy makers.

In the not-so-distant future, researchers may be able to build atoms to your specifications with the click of a button. It’s still the stuff of science fiction, but a team at ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ reports that it is getting closer when it comes to controlling and assembling particles called “big atoms."

Dr. Thomas H. Zurbuchen will discuss the process of writing successful NASA mission proposals and provide a brief update on how the mission review process may evolve in the near future. Researchers thinking about being a PI or joining a proposal team are invited to attend on Wednesday, June 5 at 2 p.m. in the Old Main Chapel at the ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ Heritage Center.

Corporate travel has a been a market in need of some desperate transformation. Pana, a ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ spinoff company, hopes to facilitate this change with a $10 million Series A round led by Silicon Valley VC firm Bessemer Venture Partners.

Ford Motor Co. is the most recent company to invest in Solid Power, a ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ spinoff based in Louisville, CO that develops solid-state batteries.

����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ served as the University Track sponsor at Boulder Startup Week (BSW) from May 13-17. There were six University Track sessions featuring ����������ý�Ļ���Ʒ faculty, staff and alumni.

The spacecraft has been nudged into a new, closer-in orbit around Mars. That circuit will allow MAVEN to split its time between continuing its scientific research and serving as a communications relay for NASA’s current and future Mars rovers.