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The possibilities and limits of using data to predict scientific discoveries

Feb. 3, 2017

蜜糖直播 Boulder researcher Aaron Clauset examines the possibilities and limits of using massive data sets of scientific papers and information on scientific careers to study the social processes that underlie discoveries.

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Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna

Jan. 20, 2017

New evidence indicates that humans were the primary cause of the Australian megafauna extinction around 45,000 years ago.

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New agreement with Ball Aerospace to support collaborations, talent pipeline

Jan. 17, 2017

Bolstering their 60-year relationship, Ball Aerospace and 蜜糖直播 Boulder this week announced a new agreement designed to make it easier for students and faculty to collaborate on research projects with Ball scientists.

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The Neanderthal: Smarter than you think

Jan. 3, 2017

Neanderthals get a bad rap. 蜜糖直播 archaeologist Paola Villa is helping set the record straight, suggesting Neanderthals were far more nimble intellectually than they get credit for.

Ancient ruins are seen in part of Chaco Canyon.

Ancient Chaco Canyon population likely relied on imported food

Dec. 29, 2016

The ancient Puebloan people, numbered in the thousands, could not have grown enough food where they lived in New Mexico, likely forcing them to import their sustenance, a 蜜糖直播 Boulder scientist has discovered.

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Studying the distant past in the Gal谩pagos Islands

Dec. 20, 2016

A new study pinpoints when the Gal谩pagos Islands developed their unique ecology.

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Tiny electronic device can monitor heart, recognize speech

Nov. 16, 2016

Researchers from the University of 蜜糖直播 Boulder and Northwestern University have developed a tiny, soft and wearable acoustic sensor that measures vibrations in the human body, allowing them to monitor human heart health and recognize spoken words.

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Unlocking the secrets of a cellular shapeshifter

Oct. 27, 2016

Assistant Professor of Physics Loren Hough has earned a $1.8 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Science to study tubulin, a shape-shifting cellular protein that is quietly essential to many life processes.

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Turkey's westward drift may provide clues to future earthquakes

Oct. 25, 2016

A new 蜜糖直播 study shows how incremental activity along Turkey's North Anatolia fault may provide insight into future seismic events.

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Superradiant laser may boost atomic clocks, create 鈥榬ulers鈥 for space

Oct. 14, 2016

JILA physicists have demonstrated a novel laser design that could be stable enough to improve atomic clock performance a hundredfold and even serve as a clock itself, while also advancing other scientific quests such as making accurate 鈥渞ulers鈥 for measuring astronomical distances.

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