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A new study led by the University of Massachusetts Amherst and involving the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder proposes a simple new mechanism to explain the source of carbon that fed a series of extreme warming events on Earth about 50 million years ago called the Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum, or PETM, as well as a sequence of similar, smaller warming events afterward.

University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder students will have another four years at the controls of NASA鈥檚 Kepler mission, launched in 2009 to hunt down Earth-like rocky planets in other solar systems and which has succeeded in spectacular fashion.

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Ten high school students from Denver, Thornton and Lyons are likely in for an experience of a lifetime when a University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder law professor takes them to Washington, D.C., for a moot court competition March 29-April 1. While there, they also will meet with U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor and tour the Supreme Court, meet with U.S. Rep. Diana DeGette of 蜜糖直播 and tour the Capitol, in addition to visiting several national monuments and museums.