Science & Technology
- Researchers at CU Boulder are exploring how wearable technologies can help people to experience nature as they hunt for fungi.
- A CIRES expert and NIST colleagues discover electroplated rhenium's unexpected superconductive characteristics.
- Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology and CU Boulder have developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum mechanics.
- Electric vehicles may one day be able to recharge while driving down the highway, drawing wireless power directly from plates installed in the road.
- CU researchers exploring ways to use augmented reality and robotic technologies in conjunction with each other are finding valuable applications that enhance safety and boost efficiency.
- A new field instrument can quantify methane leaks as tiny as one-quarter of a human exhalation from nearly a mile away.
- A malleable, self-healing and fully recyclable "electronic skin" has applications ranging from robotics and prosthetic development to better biomedical devices.
- Engineers are developing a scalable, cost-effective greenhouse material that splits sunlight into photosynthetically efficient light and repurposes inefficient infrared light to aid in water purification.
- Engineers have developed a new class of soft, electrically activated devices capable of mimicking the expansion and contraction of natural muscles, a major advance in the field of robotics.
- A new robotic small intestine under development at CU Boulder has broad-reaching implications for the treatment of gastrointestinal ailments and improved medical training.