Science & Technology
- <p>An international team of astronomers led by the California Institute of Technology and involving the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß has discovered the largest and farthest reservoir of water ever detected in the universe.</p>
- <p>A $670 million NASA orbiting mission to probe the past climate of Mars led by the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß reached a major milestone last week when it successfully completed its Mission Critical Design Review by the space agency.</p>
- <p>The Colorado economy will grow at a modest pace throughout the second half of 2011 with slow but positive job growth, according to economist Richard Wobbekind of the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's Leeds School of Business.</p>
- <p>City of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß news release</p>
<p>A Gilbert White Memorial Flood Level Marker dedication event will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, in Central Park, just east of the Broadway Bridge on the north side of ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Creek.</p> - <p>NIST news release</p>
<p>Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß have demonstrated a flexible, broadly usable technique for steadily calming the vibrations of an engineered mechanical object down to the quantum "ground state," the lowest possible energy level.</p> - <p>Colorado business leaders remained confident, although generally less optimistic about the economy looking ahead to the third quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß's Leeds School of Business.</p>
- <p>A ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what can be a tedious, time-consuming research process.</p>
- <p>¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a five-member steering committee and eight campus discussion groups that will take the next key steps toward creating a school or college in the area of information, communication, journalism, media and technology, or ICJMT.</p>
- <p>A novel ¶¶Òõ´«Ã½ÔÚÏß technique to shrink the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by zapping a substrate with two separate colors of light beams has been optioned to Heidelberg Instruments headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.</p>
- <p>Community gardeners eat more vegetables, exercise more, weigh less and feel healthier than nongardeners -- and even home gardeners -- in the Denver-metro area, researchers led by scholars from the University of Colorado have found.</p>