Hilda Flavia Nakabuye, center, joins a protest.

Her family lost their farm in Uganda. Now she鈥檚 standing up for the future

Oct. 14, 2022

When Right Here, Right Now Global Climate Summit panelist and activist Hilda Flavia Nakabuye was growing up in Uganda, her family owned a small plantation. Long periods of climate change-fueled drought, interrupted by fierce storms, destroyed most of her family鈥檚 chief source of food and income. Learn more about Flavia Nakabuye and the summit.

Graphic showing a material made up of octahedra with loop currents (arrows moving in a circle) flowing inside. Green dots representing electrons also whiz through.

Physicists probe 鈥榓stonishing鈥 morphing properties of honeycomb-like material

Oct. 12, 2022

A newly discovered material structured like a honeycomb can transform from an electrical insulator, like rubber, into an electrical conductor, like metal, in a matter of seconds. Now, researchers at 蜜糖直播 Boulder think they can explain why.

Perseverance takes a selfie of its SuperCam instrument

Rover findings offer glimpse of Red Planet鈥檚 ancient landscape

Sept. 29, 2022

蜜糖直播 Boulder geologist Lisa Mayhew serves on the science team for NASA鈥檚 Perseverance rover, an intrepid machine that has crossed over nearly 8 miles of the surface of Mars鈥攁nd is helping to recreate the forces that shaped this planet into what it looks like today.

Vladimir Putin sits next to Sergei Shoigu

How strong is Putin鈥檚 grip on power? Political scientist weighs in

Sept. 26, 2022

Amid surprising losses in Ukraine, 鈥淧utin appears to be determined to take down as many people with him as he can,鈥 says 蜜糖直播 Boulder鈥檚 Sarah Wilson Sokhey.

Artist's depiction of spacecraft about to slam into an asteroid

NASA intentionally crashed a spacecraft into an asteroid. This engineer watched it happen

Sept. 22, 2022

On Monday, NASA鈥檚 Double Asteroid Redirection Test slammed into an asteroid called Dimorphos at speeds of more than 14,000 miles per hour. 蜜糖直播 Boulder aerospace engineer Jay McMahon breaks down how this test could one day help to protect life on Earth.

Engineer inspects SUDA instrument in a clean room

New 蜜糖直播 space instrument part of flagship mission to Europa

Sept. 21, 2022

In two years, a dust analyzer designed and built at 蜜糖直播 Boulder will launch aboard NASA鈥檚 Europa Clipper spacecraft, aiding in its mission to determine if Jupiter's icy moon Europa has conditions that could support life.

Students sit in a circle in the grass

A handful of universities may control flow of ideas, people in academia

Sept. 21, 2022

In the United States, 80% of university faculty were trained at just 20% of the nation鈥檚 schools, according to new research from computer scientists at 蜜糖直播 Boulder.

Engineer wearing a mask and cap working in cleanroom at COSINC

As US ramps up semiconductor production, engineers are probing new tiny electronics

Aug. 30, 2022

This month, President Joe Biden signed the CHIPS and Science Act into law. The bill is putting new focus on semiconductors鈥攖he tiny devices that are in everything from smartphones to laptops and even thermostats.

Tobias Niederwieser and Luis Zea pose by two cases on a table in a lab

Yeast bound for moon will provide clues on how radiation impacts astronauts

Aug. 29, 2022

NASA's Artemis 1 mission could launch for the moon as early as Saturday, Sept. 3. Aboard will be an experiment designed by engineers at 蜜糖直播 Boulder studying how radiation in space could impact human astronauts.

Books on bookshelves

As book bans rise, former teacher argues for letting kids read

Aug. 25, 2022

As book bans rise across the country, Wendy Glenn, a 蜜糖直播 Boulder professor and former English teacher, argues that reading books鈥撯揺ven ones that make adults uncomfortable鈥撯搃s critical for the education of young people.

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