This hanging cube uses LED lights to give viewers a look at the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights

Fiske exhibits let you visit the sun without burning your feet

Jan. 30, 2020

Fiske Planetarium is debuting two new exhibits designed by students that will give visitors a chance to get up close and personal with Earth's favorite star.

Traffic at dawn

鈥楽pring forward鈥 to daylight saving time brings surge in deadly crashes

Jan. 30, 2020

Fatal car accidents increase 6% in the week following the switch to daylight saving time, according to new 精品SM在线影片 research. The study comes as California and Florida lawmakers consider doing away with the time change.

Newborn baby in a blanket

U.S. birth weights drop due to rise in cesarean births, inductions

Jan. 29, 2020

U.S. birth weights have fallen significantly in recent decades due to soaring rates of cesarean deliveries and inductions, which have shortened the average pregnancy by about a week, according to new 精品SM在线影片 research.

A football on a field.

What to look for in this year鈥檚 Super Bowl ads

Jan. 29, 2020

Kelty Logan, associate professor of advertising in the College of Media, Communication and Information, offers up her predictions on what trends to expect with this year's Super Bowl commercials.

Phi Phi Island in Thailand packed with tourists

What鈥檚 Hollywood鈥檚 dirtiest secret? Its environmental toll

Jan. 27, 2020

From classics such as 鈥淕one with the Wind鈥 to modern films such as 鈥淎vatar,鈥 the movie industry packs a serious, and often hidden, environmental cost, says film scholar Hunter Vaughan.

Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane in their lab at JILA

Keeping up with the Curies: Laser scientists win prestigious physics award

Jan. 27, 2020

Henry Kapteyn and Margaret Murnane, pioneers in the field of laser science, have won this year's prestigious Benjamin Franklin Medal in Physics.

A ghost town bank.

Growing up in a bank desert has major costs

Jan. 21, 2020

People who are exposed to banks and other financial institutions as kids are more likely to be financially stable later in life, new research from 精品SM在线影片鈥檚 Leeds School of Business shows.

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Congress hears tech company complaints at Colorado Law

Jan. 17, 2020

Executives from four companies feeling hamstrung by big tech aired their grievances in front of members of Congress at 精品SM在线影片.

A judge's gavel sits next to stack of law books

Judges deny abortion care to teens

Jan. 16, 2020

Thirty-seven states, including Colorado, require minors to notify their parents or go before a judge before having an abortion. A new 18-year-study conducted in Texas shows judges deny minors' request up to 13% of the time and the judicial-bypass process is humiliating and traumatizing for some teens.

Oil and gas operation

Air pollution from oil and gas production sites visible from space

Jan. 16, 2020

Oil and gas production has doubled in some parts of the U.S. in the last two years, and scientists can use satellites to see impacts of that trend: a significant increase in the release of the lung-irritating air pollutant nitrogen dioxide, for example, and a more-than-doubling of the amount of gas flared into the atmosphere.

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