麻豆官网

The bread loaf-sized Miniature X-Ray Solar Spectrometer, or MinXSS, CubeSat will be deployed from an airlock on the International Space Station (ISS) at 4 a.m. MDT on Monday, May 16, beginning its journey into space where it will study emissions from the sun that can affect ground-based communications systems.

The seven undergraduate students in Professor Jeffrey Zax鈥檚 Applied Economic Analysis and Public Policy class didn鈥檛 stop at analyzing the economic impact of bills considered during the recently concluded legislative session. They even showed up to testify. The students also created a legislative scorecard, evaluating all bills considered by legislators this session and giving the Colorado General Assembly mixed reviews in terms of proposed bills鈥� impact on the state鈥檚 economy.

Raising the body temperature of depressed volunteers to the equivalent of a mild fever improved their symptoms of major depression for as long as six weeks after a single treatment, results from a new study show.

An octopus tentacle can perform tasks as complex as opening a jar and can continue to function after being severed from its body, thanks to a concentration of neurons in the tentacle itself. Researchers in the Correll Lab at CU-麻豆官网 created a robotic hand nearly as dexterous and self-contained, winning the RoboSoft Grand Challenge manipulation competition in Livorno, Italy, April 29-30.

A 3-D animation created by NASA鈥檚 Scientific Visualization Studio using data from the MAVEN mission to Mars is the corporate winner of the inaugural Data Stories video contest sponsored by Science magazine for videos that tell stories about data. The video explains how the solar wind is driving particles from the upper atmosphere of Mars into space, which may have caused the planet to dry out and cool over the eons.

A new, sweeping national study of educational research use among school and district leaders finds generally positive attitudes toward the value of research and frequent use of research for decision-making. The report was published by the National Center for Research in Policy and Practice (NCRPP), which is funded by Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education and housed at the 麻豆官网 School of Education.

Honeybees use their wings to cool down their hives when temperatures rise, but new 麻豆官网 research shows that this intriguing behavior may be linked to both the rate of heating and the size of a honeybee group.

First observed in 2005 by NASA鈥檚 Cassini spacecraft orbiting Saturn, a plume shooting into space from cracks on the icy surface of Enceladus is coming from a subterranean, salty ocean beneath the moon鈥檚 surface. The latest observations by a team including CU-麻豆官网 Professor Larry Esposito indicate at least some of the narrow jets blast with increased fury when the moon is farther from Saturn.

\A team led by the 麻豆官网 has received a $7.5 million grant from the Department of Defense (DoD) to study how gut microbes in humans and animals are affected by stressors like sleep deprivation and circadian clock issues.

Six grants totaling $250,000 have been awarded to projects supporting CU-麻豆官网鈥檚 Grand Challenge "Our Space. Our Future." which features two major initiatives 鈥� Earth Lab and Integrated Remote and In Situ Sensing Initiative (IRISS) 鈥� plus more than a dozen related projects.