Student life: CU freshman engineering projects on display at Expo

Dec. 12, 2013

From compostable heat to a custom-built, sensory playhouse, CU freshmen at this year鈥檚 Engineering Projects Expo on Saturday, Dec. 7, had a lot to show off.

Smartphone users value their privacy and are willing to pay for it, CU-Boulder economists find

Dec. 10, 2013

Average smartphone users are willing to pay up to $5 extra for a typical application鈥攐r 鈥渁pp鈥濃攖hat won鈥檛 monitor their locations, contact lists and other personal information, a study conducted by two economists at the 精品SM在线影片 has found.

Landsat 8, courtesy of NASA

Landsat 8 helps unveil the coldest place on Earth

Dec. 9, 2013

Scientists recently recorded the lowest temperatures on Earth at a desolate and remote ice plateau in East Antarctica, trumping a record set in 1983 and uncovering a new puzzle about the ice-covered continent. Glaciologist Ted Scambos and his team found temperatures from 鈭92 to 鈭94 degrees Celsius (鈭134 to 鈭137 degrees Fahrenheit) in a 1,000-kilometer long swath on the highest section of the East Antarctic ice divide. Scambos is lead scientist at the National Snow and Ice Data Center, which is a part of the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences at the 精品SM在线影片.

CU-Boulder scientist: 2012 solar storm points up need for society to prepare

Dec. 9, 2013

A massive ejection of material from the sun initially traveling at over 7 million miles per hour that narrowly missed Earth last year is an event solar scientists hope will open the eyes of policymakers regarding the impacts and mitigation of severe space weather, says a 精品SM在线影片 professor.

JILA team develops 鈥榮pinning trap鈥 to measure electron roundness

Dec. 5, 2013

NIST news release JILA researchers have developed a method of spinning electric and magnetic fields around trapped molecular ions to measure whether the ions鈥 tiny electrons are truly round鈥攔esearch with major implications for future scientific understanding of the universe.

Got an hour? CU-Boulder program lets you build a video game, learn to code

Dec. 4, 2013

In just one hour, school kids, teachers and any code-curious member of the public with an Internet connection can now create their own 3-D video game using a tutorial built by a team at the 精品SM在线影片 in preparation for the global 鈥淗our of Code鈥 event happening the second week of December.

CU-Boulder-led team finds first evidence of primates regularly sleeping in caves

Dec. 4, 2013

Scientists have discovered that some ring-tailed lemurs in Madagascar regularly retire to limestone chambers for their nightly snoozes, the first evidence of the consistent, daily use of the same caves and crevices for sleeping among the world鈥檚 wild primates.

CU-Boulder students to demonstrate engineering projects at Dec. 7 Design Expo

Dec. 3, 2013

More than 350 engineering students at the 精品SM在线影片 will demonstrate their innovations and inventions to the community at the annual fall Engineering Design Expo on Saturday, Dec. 7.

New report calls for early warning system regarding abrupt climate change events

Dec. 3, 2013

A new National Research Council report calls for the development of an early warning system that could help society better anticipate sudden changes resulting from climate change and their impacts on society, says a 精品SM在线影片 faculty member who chaired the committee that produced the report.

CU Professor Rick Stevens: The Kennedy assassination and how America fell in love with live TV

Nov. 22, 2013

It鈥檚 hard to imagine, but 50 years ago it wasn鈥檛 TV, the Internet, Twitter or a myriad of social media that alerted people to breaking news, instead they probably heard it on the radio. But that all changed one afternoon in Dallas, Nov. 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. That鈥檚 when people discovered the power of live TV, says Rick Stevens, a professor of journalism at CU-Boulder.

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