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A new study involving the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder shows clear evidence of the continuous control of fire by Neanderthals in Europe dating back roughly 400,000 years, yet another indication that they weren't dimwitted brutes as often portrayed.

Stan Brakhage loved poetry and befriended poets but dubbed himself a failed poet. Many experts disagreed. He was, they said, a consummate poet -- one who spoke in the language of film and measured his meter in frames.

A new University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder study indicates an ancient form of complementary medicine may be effective in helping to treat people with mild traumatic brain injury, a finding that may have implications for some U.S. war veterans returning home.

Ignoring the stresses of an unemployed spouse's job search does not bode well for the employed spouse's job productivity or home life, says a University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder professor.

A powerful solar flare has ushered in the largest space weather storm in at least four years and has already disrupted some ground communications on Earth, said University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Professor Daniel Baker, an internationally known space weather expert.

Up to two-thirds of Earth's permafrost likely will disappear by 2200 as a result of warming temperatures, unleashing vast quantities of carbon into the atmosphere, says a new study by the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.

Following a more than three-month delay due to technical problems, NASA's space shuttle Discovery will make its final flight Feb. 24 from Kennedy Space Center in Florida carrying two University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder-built biomedical payload devices.

The University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Law School's Juvenile and Family Law Program will take a group of 15 students to India for a hands-on clinical application of the family law curriculum.

Four finalists have been named for the position of dean at the University of ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder Law School, according to Jim Williams, dean of the University Libraries and chair of the search committee.

In a paradox typical of the quantum world, JILA scientists have eliminated collisions between atoms in an atomic clock by packing the atoms closer together. The surprising discovery, described in the Feb. 3 issue of Science Express, can boost the performance of experimental atomic clocks made of thousands or tens of thousands of neutral atoms trapped by intersecting laser beams