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PufferBot, the hovering quadcopter drone created by graduate student Hooman Hedayati and his colleagues at the ATLAS Institute, comes complete with a plastic shield that can expand in size at a moment’s notice—forming a robotic airbag that could prevent dangerous collisions between people and machines.

Scientists at CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø are developing a satellite about the size of a toaster oven to explore one of the cosmos’ most fundamental mysteries: How did radiation from stars punch its way out of the first galaxies to fundamentally alter the make-up of the universe as it we know it today?

Scientists believe we are living in the Second Quantum Revolution, a period of rapid advances in technology based on discoveries in quantum science. Companies from IBM and Google to small startups are eager to create and perfect these new technologies—and that requires training a new kind of workforce.

Capable of achieving spatial resolutions of 70 pm—smaller than the size of an atom—the Thermo Scientific Titan Themis S/TEM, located in the newly-launched CU Facility for Electron Microscopy of Materials (CU FEMM), is now the highest-resolution electron microscope in Colorado.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science launched three new interdisciplinary research themes this summer as part of a broad push into critical areas of study. Join a virtual session on Wednesday, Nov. 4 from 1–3 p.m. to meet the IRT directors, hear their plans and learn how you can participate.

Noted organic chemist Seth Marder has been named the new director of the Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute (RASEI), one of several affiliated with CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø, effective July 2021. RASEI is a joint institute between CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL).

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø research attracted $613.9 million in funding in fiscal year 2020 for groundbreaking studies that, among other things, crack the code of the teenage brain, advance electric transportation and aim to understand how odors guide behavior.

The College of Engineering and Applied Science (CEAS) launched three new interdisciplinary research themes this summer as part of a broad push into critical areas of study. Join the virtual open house on Wednesday, November 4 to meet the IRT directors, hear their plans and learn how you can participate.

CU Â鶹¹ÙÍø's third annual Research & Innovation Week—celebrating research, scholarship and creative work across campus—took place from October 12–16. Recordings of the three main events (featuring the MOSAiC mission, the RIO Faculty Fellows and the university's ATLAS Institute) are now available.

New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers—like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying though space. The findings could give scientists new insights into the evolution of the solar system’s asteroids.