Man pouring pills out of bottle and into hand

Opioids, obesity—not 'despair deaths'—raising mortality rates for whites

July 19, 2017

Mortality researchers are challenging the idea that economically influenced "despair deaths" are killing middle-aged white men, pointing to prescription painkillers and obesity instead.

A person undergoing radiation therapy

Discovery could lead to fewer side effects, better results for cancer patients

July 19, 2017

A revelation involving the damage radiation-exposed cells from cancer treatments can do to healthy cells, causing side effects, could be good news for patients.

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Researchers to study environmental, human impacts of nuclear war

July 18, 2017

Scientists and students from CU Boulder and Rutgers are calculating the environmental and human impacts of a potential nuclear war using the most sophisticated scientific tools available.

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Research could zap heavy metals out of drug production

July 18, 2017

Oana Luca has won a green chemistry "ignition" grant for her innovative chemistry approach. Her research involves a more sustainable way of creating pharmaceuticals.

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Babies with hearing loss need early intervention, but only half get it

July 13, 2017

Children who are deaf or partially deaf but receive diagnosis and interventions by 6 months develop a far greater vocabulary than those for whom treatment is delayed.

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The architecture of smell: Cracking the code on the least understood sense

July 6, 2017

Professor John Crimaldi, who specializes in fluid mechanics engineering, is helping to develop key technological tools to drive olfactory generators that project virtual reality scents.

PhD candidate Adenife Modile looks at African landscape

PhD candidate studying fertility, maternal health in Tanzania

June 28, 2017

Sociology doctoral candidate Adenife Modile studies fertility and maternal health worldwide, with the end goal of disrupting the assumption that "having lots of kids is what we do."

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What lives inside your showerhead?

June 22, 2017

CIRES researchers are uncovering new information about the mysterious world of tiny microbes living inside your showerhead.

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A lover's touch eases pain as heartbeats, breathing sync

June 21, 2017

A new study by CU Boulder pain researcher Pavel Goldstein shows that when an empathetic partner holds the hand of a lover in pain, the couple's heart rates sync and the pain subsides.

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Fake news outlets have more media impact than fact-checking outlets

June 19, 2017

Fake news websites had about twice as much influence on the media landscape as fact-checking websites did, according to new research by the College of Media, Communication and Information.

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