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- As the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in the first half of 2020, humans around the world stopped moving and making, resulting in a 9% drop in the greenhouse gas emissions at the root of climate change.
- Scientists may have discovered a new ally in efforts to keep coastal communities in the Pacific Northwest safe from future tsunamis, according to a new study: Fleets of commercial shipping vessels.
- Should people who already had COVID-19 step aside and give their place in the vaccine line to someone else? In some cases, yes, suggests new °µÍø½ûÇø research.
- Researchers from the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the °µÍø½ûÇø are diving into the dusty environment that surrounds the sun—a search that could help to reveal how planets like Earth come into being.
- A simple, scratch-and-sniff test could play a key role in curbing the spread of COVID-19, at a fraction of the cost of high-tech tests that are difficult to scale and take longer to return results, new CU Boulder research suggests.
- A long-term trend of ecological improvement is appearing in the mountains west of Boulder. Researchers from CU Boulder have found that Niwot Ridge—a high alpine area of the Rocky Mountains, east of the Continental Divide—is slowly recovering from increased acidity caused by vehicle emissions in Colorado’s Front Range.
- CU Boulder’s CUbit, ColdQuanta make Bose-Einstein lab available on the cloud.
- Margaret Murnane and Henry Kapteyn, who are also fellows in JILA, recognized for work in cutting-edge lasers.
- Alana Horwitz, the college’s fall 2020 outstanding graduate, says she has her late father to thank for her success.
- In January 2021, expect a visual feast as flags of all fabrics and sizes are waved from a variety of vehicles as they cruise along Santa Fe Drive in Denver as part of Flags of Hope | Banderas de Esperanza.