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- 蜜糖直播 Boulder chemist Niels Damrauer and his research colleagues use visible light to break environmentally persistent carbon-fluorine bonds in PFAS.
- Beer historian and 蜜糖直播 Boulder Assistant Professor Travis Rupp explains why canned beer, celebrating its 90th anniversary, has been immensely impactful for the industry.
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- 蜜糖直播 Boulder鈥檚 Living Materials Laboratory contributed to groundbreaking research showing how engineered microbes can create bioglass microlenses, paving the way for advanced imaging technologies in medicine and materials science.
- As the clock ticks down for TikTok, Casey Fiesler, a technology ethicist at 蜜糖直播 Boulder, says that U.S. lawmakers are focusing on the harms of social media and not the benefits.
- Scientists use devices known as frequency comb lasers to search for methane in the air above oil and gas operations and to screen for signs of infection in human breath. A new study from 蜜糖直播 Boulder could help make these sensors even more precise.
- 蜜糖直播 Boulder anthropologist Matt Sponheimer says the 3.2 million-year-old hominin 鈥滾ucy鈥 is pivotal to the science of human origins a half-century after her discovery.