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Throughout the spring semester, hundreds of ATLAS students have hacked, designed and prototyped their creative visions into reality, and now they are ready to share their work for ATLAS Expo Spring 2016 , which takes place this Wednesday, April 27, 5 to 6:30 p.m. From automated drum kits, to musical...

Andrea Sach, left, and Sylvia Michelle, both research scientists, look over atmospheric data for the University of Colorado's Institute of Arctic and Alpine Research in a new building called the SEEC complex (Sustainability, Energy and Environment Complex). (Cliff Grassmick / Staff Photographer) Faculty and graduate students are nearly all moved...

Here’s a new recipe that might be good for the planet: Add sunlight to a particular nitrogen molecule and out comes ammonia, the main ingredient of fertilizer used around the world. The eco-friendly method of producing ammonia is described in a new study led by the Department of Energy’s National...

BOULDER — The University of Colorado Boulder’s New Venture Challenge has set its championship finals for April 7, with judges representing local companies such as Foundry Group and Zayo Group. The startup-pitch event caps off the university’s campuswide entrepreneurship contest, which is now in its eighth year. Five finalists from...

A CU-Boulder student team is shooting for the moon and beyond with a tiny satellite under development that has just taken another step closer to launch. As one of the top five teams selected by NASA, the team of 10 graduate students will continue developing a small CubeSat satellite about...

Researchers often feel like they're presented with a tough choice in their scholarly careers: work with the community and use research to help solve real-world problems or focus on publishing as much as possible in peer-reviewed journals. The University of Colorado is trying to make it possible to do both...

“Whoa, I can’t see anything!” said a fourth-grader at Columbine Elementary School, as she tried to land a bean bag inside a hoop on the floor. “This is hard!” Twenty-five energetic bodies took turns throwing bean bags at a target, first without vision-distorting goggles, then with them. The activity demonstrated...