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The ancestor of all hammerhead sharks probably appeared abruptly in Earth's oceans about 20 million years ago and was as big as some contemporary hammerheads, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø.

Faculty and students from the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø's Research and Engineering Center for Unmanned Vehicles teamed with researchers from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for the first interception of a "supercell" thunderstorm by an unmanned aircraft system on May 6.

NASA's space shuttle Atlantis will make its final flight May 14 carrying three University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø-built biomedical payload devices, including one to help scientists understand how and why slimy and troublesome clumps of microorganisms flourish in the low-gravity conditions of space.

University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø law professors Scott Moss and Paul Campos can comment on President Obama's nomination of U.S. Solicitor General Elena Kagan as the nation's 112th U.S. Supreme Court justice.

A team of researchers led by the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø believe a dry powder, inhalable vaccine developed for measles prevention and slated for human clinical trials later this year in India will lead to other inhalable, inexpensive vaccines for illnesses ranging from tuberculosis to cervical cancer.

Kevin Fiedler, a junior at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø majoring in engineering physics, has been named a 2010 Goldwater Scholar, the premier national undergraduate award recognizing outstanding students in math, science and engineering.

Jeff Mitton, professor and chair of CU-Â鶹¹ÙÍø's ecology and evolutionary biology department, is available to talk about the repercussions of oil spills. Mitton was on sabbatical in 1979-1980 at the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Mass., where he studied a 1969 oil spill that seeped into the Sippewissett Marsh.

The University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø has received a $15 million grant through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to be used toward the ongoing construction of a revolutionary biotechnology and biomedical research facility where faculty and students will tackle a variety of human health challenges.

People who pursue happiness through material possessions are liked less by their peers than people who pursue happiness through life experiences, according to a new study led by University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø psychology Professor Leaf Van Boven.

Juri Toomre, a professor of astrophysical and planetary sciences and a fellow of JILA at the University of Colorado at Â鶹¹ÙÍø, has been selected to receive the Hazel Barnes Prize, the highest faculty recognition for teaching and research awarded by the university.