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- Current sea level rise projections assume a constant rate, but CIRES fellow Steve Nerem found the rate is actually accelerating.
- Healthcare workers, security guards and other employees who periodically work the night shift are significantly more likely to have Type 2 diabetes than workers who work only days, according to a sweeping new study by researchers from ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH) in Boston.
- The MAXWELL cubesat, a University of Colorado Boulder Smead Aerospace graduate project, has been selected as a winner in the Air Force University Nanosatellite Program Flight Selection Review.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· announced it has joined the University Climate Change Coalition (UC3), a newly formed coalition of 13 leading North American research universities that have united to help communities achieve their climate goals and accelerate the transition to a low-carbon future.
- ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researchers have discovered a mechanism that explains the persistence of asymmetrical stellar clusters surrounding supermassive black holes in some galaxies and suggests that during post-galactic merger periods, orbiting stars could be flung into the black hole and destroyed at a rate of one per year.
- Ask a nonscientist what memories are made of and you’ll likely conjure images of childhood birthday parties or wedding days. Charles Hoeffer thinks about proteins.
- University of Colorado Boulder community,All of us here at ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· are pleased that the Senate, House and President have agreed on a Continuing Resolution (CR) to end the federal government shutdown that began last Friday. We appreciate the
- Engineers have developed a new class of soft, electrically activated devices capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles, a major advance in the field of robotics.
- The space agency is turning to an unlikely resource in its quest to conquer the red planet, and ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· students are answering the call. It is all part of the NASA BIG Idea Challenge college competition.
- (THE JANUARY 2018 SHUTDOWN HAS ENDED AS OF MONDAY, JANUARY 22)Below is a running list of shutdown-related guidance that has been received by ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ·. When possible, we are sharing a link to the source. In some cases, the guidance was