News Headlines
- For decades, atomic clocks have been the pinnacle of precision timekeeping, enabling GPS navigation, cutting-edge physics research and tests of fundamental theories. But researchers at JILA, in collaboration with the Technical University of Vienna, are pushing beyond atomic transitions to something potentially even more stable: a nuclear clock.
- Funded through nearly $1.5 million approved by the Colorado Economic Development Commission, these grants bridge the gap between cutting-edge research and commercialization.
- Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on. But what was the first thing scientists discovered? Read from CU expert James Byrne as he tackles this Curious Kids question on The Conversation.
- Alireza Doostan is leading a $1.2 million effort for real-time data compression for supercomputer research.
- For the first time, scientists described a hummingbird chick potentially mimicking a poisonous caterpillar to avoid getting eaten.
- Attorneys general from 21 states have filed a lawsuit to prevent the U.S. Department of Education from cutting its workforce by half.
- Spring break is just around the corner. Many campus services, including dining, bus transportation and residence hall front desk hours, will be reduced throughout spring break. Whether you live on or off campus, are staying in Boulder or heading out of town, take a moment to review some reminders.
- A team of aerospace undergraduates is headed back to high school to teach the next generation of students about rocketry.
- New CU Boulder research harnesses the power of an ultrafast microscope to study molecular movement in space and time.
- A new study found racial and socioeconomic disparities in where odor-emitting marijuana grow houses and other malodorous factories are located in Denver and in how communities report these issues.