Ancient ruins are seen in part of Chaco Canyon.

Ancient Chaco Canyon population likely relied on imported food

Dec. 29, 2016

The ancient Puebloan people, numbered in the thousands, could not have grown enough food where they lived in New Mexico, likely forcing them to import their sustenance, a CU 鶹 scientist has discovered.

Inigo San Milan treating a cyclist with his glycogen testing invention.

CU invention serves as muscular 'gas gauge' for Buffs in training

Dec. 28, 2016

A new ultrasound technology developed by CU researchers and used by CU 鶹 football, track and field, and basketball players, enables athletes to painlessly measure how nourished or depleted their muscles are, real-time, in 15 seconds.

Middle School Ensemble participants with trombones reviewing music

Middle school music program tuning up for the season

Dec. 27, 2016

CU 鶹 College of Music students are busy fine tuning lesson plans for this year’s CU Middle School Ensemble program, which begins Feb. 1. This program offers an extra-curricular performance opportunity for middle school band, orchestra and choral students.

Jessie Creamean

Smoke, dust from Pacific Northwest fires affect Colorado's air quality

Dec. 27, 2016

During poor air quality days in Denver last year, CU 鶹 and NOAA scientists found that specks of mineral dust swept into the region along with smoke from Pacific Northwest wildfires. Both smoke and mineral dust have consequences not only for health, but also for climate.

a galapagos tortoise

Studying the distant past in the Galápagos Islands

Dec. 20, 2016

A new study pinpoints when the Galápagos Islands developed their unique ecology.

ring tailed lemur in tree

Ring-tailed lemurs of Madagascar: Going, going, gone?

Dec. 19, 2016

Madagascar's ring-tailed lemurs are in a steep decline because of habitat destruction, bushmeat hunting and illegal capture for the pet trade.

a cannabis concentrate product

CU 鶹 researchers receive state grant to study high-potency marijuana effects

Dec. 16, 2016

CU 鶹 researchers have been awarded a grant from the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment to study the effects of using high-potency cannabis concentrates.

istock image of women sitting on a couch.

Lay counselors could help fill treatment gap for global, postpartum depression

Dec. 15, 2016

New research suggests an army of trained “lay counselors” could someday provide a solution to the treatment gap for people suffering from depression, including postpartum depression.

Chris Leach

Q&A: Professor Leach discusses new support for de Soto Capital Markets program

Dec. 15, 2016

Leeds Professor Chris Leach talks about $3.7 million in new gifts to support the Hernando de Soto Capital Markets Program, which introduces first-year business students to foundational ideas in ethics, business, law and economics, including those of de Soto, a Peruvian economist who champions individual property rights as one of the cornerstones to economic empowerment for people in emerging nations.

solar storms Earth atmosphere

Researchers dial in to 'thermostat' in Earth’s upper atmosphere

Dec. 14, 2016

Researchers have found Earth's upper atmosphere has a natural thermostat that dramatically cools the area after powerful solar storms bring on the heat.

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