Science
- How severe is your pain?聽A CU-Boulder professor鈥檚 breakthrough provides a scientific means to measure pain.
- Did you know losing sleep leads to weight gain? Integrative physiology associate professor Kenneth Wright Jr.鈥檚 research reveals why.
- Imagine discovering your birth date was 65 million years earlier than you thought. This is the predicament the Grand Canyon is in, thanks to assistant professor Rebecca Flowers and her team.
- Professor Ding Xue and his team's discovery may lead to the development of medicine to treat the deadly hepatitis B virus that affects millions across the globe
- What do you get when you pair adventurers with scientists? A better understanding of everything from grizzlies to ice worms.
- In 1951 professor聽Dick Jessor聽arrived in Boulder expecting to 鈥渟lum for awhile before moving to civilization on either the West or East Coast.鈥 Instead he founded the university鈥檚 Institute of Behavioral Science and stayed for six decades.
- Mars may have been home to an ocean and microbial life, according to CU scientists聽Brian Hynek聽and聽Gaetano Di Achille.
- Combine artistic creativity and a love of science, add a dollop of inspiration, season with whimsy and a sense of humor and you have Julie Peasley鈥檚 recipe for success in crafting a geek gift teaching tool 鈥 the Particle Zoo.
- Chronic seizures caused by traumatic head injuries may be caused by chemicals released by the brain鈥檚 immune system to try to repair the injured site, according to CU-Boulder researchers.
- Treatment of injured, diseased or aging muscle tissues in humans, including damage wreaked by muscular dystrophy, may reach new heights, thanks to a recent discovery by a CU research team.