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If you are a male barn swallow in the United States or the Mediterranean with dark red breast feathers, you’re apt to wow potential mates. But if you have long outer tail feathers in the United States, or short ones in the Mediterranean, the females may not be so impressed.
Telomerase, a powerful enzyme that acts at the ends of human chromosomes, can keep us healthy, but it can also promote cancer growth. Now, researchers at the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß have used a process called single-molecule imaging to visualize the process that this enzyme uses to attach itself to the ends of chromosom
Beginning in spring 2017, CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß becomes the first university in the nation to offer a graduate certificate in Applied Shakespeare.
A solar storm that jammed radar and radio communications at the height of the Cold War could have led to a disastrous military conflict if not for the U.S. Air Force’s budding efforts to monitor the sun’s activity, a new CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß study finds.
Earlier snowmelt periods associated with a warming climate may hinder subalpine forest regulation of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), according to the results of a new ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß study.
Shakespearean plays often include fight scenes, but they’re not usually produced in a war zone. Author Qais Akbar Omar has staged a play in Afghanistan and is coming to CU ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß to talk about it.
The rate of groundwater contamination due to natural gas leakage from oil and gas wells has remained largely unchanged in northeastern Colorado’s Denver-Julesburg Basin since 2001, according to a new ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß study based on public records and historical data.
A new ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß study shows that using an electrically-powered bicycle on a regular basis can provide riders with an effective workout while improving some aspects of cardiovascular health, especially for riders who previously had been sedentary.
A group of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß faculty and students are anxiously awaiting the arrival of NASA’s Juno spacecraft at Jupiter July 4, a mission expected to reveal the hidden interior of the gas giant as well as keys to how our solar system formed.
A new study, published today in the journal Science and led by ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß researchers, sheds new light on a longstanding biological mystery. Mitochondria are crucial to cellular processes, providing respiratory and metabolic functions that power a cell.