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Earlier this month, INSTAAR researchers took their annual snow survey in the Green Lakes Valley, part of the City of Boulder watershed. The measurements are important for the state's water and fire management agencies.
The Grand Challenge initiative this week announced a new campus-wide call for proposals to build on and expand the accomplishments of current programs and efforts, due July 1, 2017.
<p>ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and JILA physicists take laser-cooled atoms airborne as part of an effort to improve aerospace sensing and navigation.</p>
A student team developed an app-connected ring that turns colors into sounds or musical notes. By tapping a ring worn on your finger, you can make music anyplace, anytime.
ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· and Harris Corporation have announced a new master research agreement to further mutual interests in analytical instrumentation, space antennas, space payloads and electronics, radar, universe exploration and other capabilities.
As Congress determines the funding levels for the federal science agencies for fiscal years 2017 and 2018, a new report highlights 102 spin-off companies—three from the University of Colorado Boulder—that demonstrate how investments in basic scientific research benefit the overall economy.
Six of the seven awards are funded by the Advanced Industries Accelerator (AIA) program, administered by the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade with the support of Colorado Advanced Industry trade associations and the state’s Economic Development Commission.
The satellite, named ‘Challenger’, had a successful lift off Tuesday, April 18, 2017 at 9:11 AM MDT from Cape Canaveral. It is part of the European Union sponsored QB50 project to deploy a network of miniaturized satellites to study part of Earth’s atmosphere.
Federally-funded research facilities in Colorado contributed an estimated $2.6 billion to the state's economy in 2016 and supported more than 17,600 jobs, according to a new report from the Leeds School of Business.
Conventional wisdom has held that forest growth will dramatically slow with high levels of rainfall. But ÍÃ×ÓÏÈÉú´«Ã½ÎÄ»¯×÷Æ· researchers this month turned that assumption on its head with an unprecedented review of data from 150 forests that concluded just the opposite.