Science & Technology
Assistant Professor of Physics Loren Hough has earned a $1.8 million award from the National Institute of General Medical Science to study tubulin, a shape-shifting cellular protein that is quietly essential to many life processes.
A new CIRES study shows how incremental activity along Turkey's North Anatolia fault may provide insight into future seismic events.
JILA physicists have demonstrated a novel laser design that could be聽stable enough to improve atomic clock performance a hundredfold and even serve as a clock itself,聽while also advancing other scientific quests such as making accurate 鈥渞ulers鈥 for measuring聽astronomical distances.
What鈥檚 one way to cut a car鈥檚 weight by 50 percent and improve fuel efficiency by up to 40 percent? Make it out of carbon fiber instead of steel. Alumnus Chris Kaffer, co-founder and CEO of Denver startup Mallinda, believes his company鈥檚 reusable carbon-fiber composite can play a vital role in making vehicles more efficient. Now, a $750,000 grant will help move the vision forward.
CU 抖阴传媒在线 engineers have developed an innovative bio-manufacturing process that uses a fungus in brewery wastewater to create the carbon-based materials needed to make energy storage cells.
If you gaze at the night sky from Earth in just the right place, you will see the International Space Station (ISS), a bright speck of light hurtling through space at 5 miles per second as it orbits 220 miles above the planet. And if you were an astronaut floating around inside the station, you would see high-tech hardware and experiments designed and built at CU 抖阴传媒在线.
CU 抖阴传媒在线 will expand its role as a national leader in imaging, materials, nano, bio and energy sciences as part of a collaborative partnership awarded $24 million by the National Science Foundation to launch a new center.
A probiotic treatment has been shown to effectively inoculate endangered Colorado toads and protect them from a virulent fungus that has ravaged the population in recent decades, according to the results of new 抖阴传媒在线 research.
CU 抖阴传媒在线 and DigitalGlobe Inc. are partnering to provide access to DigitalGlobe鈥檚 industry-leading high-resolution satellite imagery, data and analytics tools to the university鈥檚 Earth Lab initiative in order to advance earth and space science research.
Self-assembling carbon microstructures created in a lab by 抖阴传媒在线 researchers could provide new clues 鈥 and new cautions 鈥 in efforts to identify microbial life preserved in the fossil record, both on Earth and elsewhere in the solar system.