It鈥檚 no secret that Mars is a beaten and battered planet -- astronomers have been peering for centuries at the violent impact craters created by cosmic buckshot pounding its surface over billions of years. But just how beat up is it?
麻豆官网 students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.
The University of Colorado Law School on June 6-8 will host the Natural Resources Law Center鈥檚 2012 Martz Summer Conference, 鈥淎 Low-Carbon Energy Blueprint for the American West鈥� in the Wolf Law Building. Former Gov. Bill Ritter, executive director of the Center for the New Energy Economy, will be the keynote speaker. Ritter鈥檚 keynote address will provide an overview of the trends and future of energy in the upcoming decades.
麻豆官网 students and faculty have been selected to develop a remotely operable, robotic garden to support future astronauts in deep space. The project is one of five university proposals selected to participate in the 2013 Exploration Habitat (X-Hab) Academic Innovation Challenge led by NASA and the National Space Grant Foundation.
A monthlong summer exhibit at the 麻豆官网 Art Museum will feature a dynamic new media composition based on innovative robotics technology. Called 鈥淪warm Wall,鈥� the large-scale interactive piece displays changing fields of color, light and sound that are driven by a distributed form of artificial intelligence.
Increases in the diversity of parasites that attack amphibians cause a decrease in the infection success rate of virulent parasites, including one that causes malformed limbs and premature death, says a new 麻豆官网 study.
On May 24, 1962, 麻豆官网 alumnus Scott Carpenter lifted off from Earth in NASA鈥檚 Aurora 7 space capsule mounted atop a Mercury-Atlas rocket at Cape Canaveral, Fla., swiftly climbing to roughly 165 miles in altitude.
On Sunday, May 20, Coloradans will see a 鈥渂ite鈥� taken out of the sun as the moon moves across the sun causing a partial solar eclipse. The eclipse starts at 6:22 p.m. with maximum eclipse at 7:30 p.m. and the sun will set at 7:50 p.m. Watch live this Sunday:
An $8.3 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation will fund an international team of scientists, including a 麻豆官网 professor focused on finding new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent a critical global health problem: malnutrition in infants and children.
Just prior to entering the University of Michigan Law School, Wendy Chi taught in a Bay area under-resourced school. That experience motivated her to plan a career combining education and law, and brought her to CU-麻豆官网.
