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- The law requires crowdfunded startups to report back to investors. The reality? Most don’t. Read from CU expert Andrew Schwartz on The Conversation.
- Researchers have identified more than 400 genes associated with accelerated aging, a.k.a. frailty, across seven categories. The findings pave the way toward personalized therapies to curb disease by decelerating aging.
- Across the globe, deserts are spreading, engulfing homes, roads and even entire villages in sand. Engineers at CU Boulder are exploring how humans can shift the paths of these towering formations.
- Researchers at CU Boulder have developed a new bio-imaging device that can operate with significantly lower power and in an entirely non-mechanical way. It could one day improve detecting eye and even heart conditions.
- Suicide Basin, an ice-dammed lake on Mendenhall Glacier, has filled up with meltwater and sent destructive surges of water into Juneau for three straight summers. Read from CU expert Alton Byers and a colleague on The Conversation.
- CU Boulder researchers, with an international team of colleagues, find that childhood pets are linked to healthier stress responses.
- CU Boulder's Embark Deep Tech Startup Creator will hire up to seven Embark Startup Founders to serve as CEOs of new deep tech companies built around technology developed in CU Boulder's world-class research enterprise.
- INSTAAR doctoral student Advyth Ramachandran is presenting preliminary findings at a conference in Baltimore. His work seeks to understand the cooling effects of various urban tree species in Boulder.
- CU Boulder engineer Nicole Xu fits moon jellyfish with microelectronic devices that enhance their natural swimming ability and will one day be able to gather data.
- New research revealed that changes in the Pacific Ocean are driving the unrelenting dry spell in the American Southwest, and it might not let up for the next three decades.