USA Track and Field Indoor championships

U.S. Olympic sports earn failing grade for self-governance

June 25, 2019

The organizations charged with overseeing U.S. Olympic sports from the elite level down to the youth level earned an average score of 58 out of 100 for self-governance in a new study published Tuesday.

A group of students takes notes during the boys2MEN summit

ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder, Crowley Foundation co-host boys2MEN Leadership Summit

June 21, 2019

The boys2MEN (b2M) Leadership Summit—an annual precollege leadership program created to empower and inspire young men to become leaders in their communities through higher education, entrepreneurship and other avenues of their choice—will take place June 22-28 on the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder campus.

NASA rendering of a Janus satellite rendezvousing with a binary asteroid.

Double take: Satellites to get an eye on asteroid pairs

June 21, 2019

A new space mission may soon examine some of the solar system’s most dynamic duos: binary asteroids.

Presidential emergency alert message

National emergency alerts potentially vulnerable to attack

June 20, 2019

New research shows that hackers, working with limited resources, could send fake emergency alerts to cell phones in a confined area like a sports stadium.

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Modern marijuana: How the bud business is changing with legalization

June 19, 2019

Five years after recreational marijuana was legalized in ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥, the Brainwaves podcast looks at the business and science sides of the industry.

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Meteors help Martian clouds form

June 17, 2019

Researchers think they’ve solved the long-standing mystery of how Mars got all of its clouds.

Fallen African kingdom map

Maps of fallen kingdom shed light on Atlantic slave trade

June 17, 2019

New maps of a pre-colonial African kingdom may help provide context on the origins of slaves who departed from the Bight of Benin.

High school counselors in conference room

High school counselors visit campus to shrink rural ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ achievement gap

June 13, 2019

Counselors and administrators from rural high schools across ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ arrived at the ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder campus Wednesday as part of a four-day program designed to increase enrollment of underrepresented students.

Women in East Africa look at a dead stalk of corn

Is climate change fueling civil war?

June 13, 2019

Droughts, floods, natural disasters—new research shows, without radical reductions in greenhouse gas emissions, one in four armed conflicts will result from climate change by century’s end.

Sunspots appearÌýon the surface of Earth'sÌýsun.

The sun may have a dual personality, simulations suggest

June 11, 2019

A deep dive into the sun's interior provides new clues to the forces that govern that star's internal clock.

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