News Headlines
- CU Boulder postdoc Catherine Saladrigas is helping bring high-resolution imaging into miniature microscopes for neuroscience research. The research group tackled how to miniaturize complex optical systems without sacrificing resolution or contrast.
- A team at CU Boulder has made a curious state of matter in which particles move constantly—like a clock with hands and gears that spin forever, even without electricity to keep them going.
- CU Boulder engineers have developed a new method for making vaccines that combines multiple, timed-release doses into a single injection that doesn't require refrigeration.
- Maryam Shakiba is studying complex composite materials with machine learning to make stronger and lighter aircraft for the Navy.
- The Colorado Quantum Incubator—a CU Boulder-led hub for advancing quantum research, innovation and community engagement—is ramping up operations as it welcomes its first companies, including inaugural tenant Quantum Rings, a rising leader in quantum software simulation.
- On Aug. 29, 2005, Hurricane Katrina tore through New Orleans, killing more than 1,800 people and displacing 1.2 million. Natural Hazards Center Director Lori Peek reflects on what we learned—or should have.
- Questionable scientific journals, or those that publish studies without proper vetting for a profit, are growing around the world. A new AI system automatically seeks them out.
- Morgan Young, an advertising and branding expert, weighs in on Cracker Barrel's rebrand—and reversal.
- CU Boulder’s Ann Schmiesing, professor of German and Scandinavian studies, has published the first English-language biography in more than five decades on Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm.
- CU Boulder political scientist Jeffrey Nonnemacher asserts that Western European national political parties use their affiliations with party families to signal their own political viewpoints.