| | | CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- A sun-powered robotic explorer named Juno is rocketing toward Jupiter on a fresh quest to discover the secret recipe for making planets.
Full Story After years of quietly accumulating an expert team in Boulder, a new national science lab has finally been promised the funding necessary to begin fulfilling its mission of creating a web of environmental observatories that will stretch across the country.
Full Story Among the daily tasks of the four American astronauts now onboard the International Space Station is to check in on 30 mice that traveled with them on the last flight of the space shuttle Atlantis and send updates about the 30 fuzzy space companions down to a University of Colorado scientist.
Full Story Two scientists involved with NASA's Kepler mission, which is searching for other Earth-like planets, will discuss the discoveries made by the mission so far in Boulder on Tuesday night.
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Over the past three decades, CU has forged rich partnerships with NASA and its fleet: Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Endeavour and Atlantis. And, Boulder has established its niche as an aerospace hub, home to federal labs and dozens of firms with aerospace ties.
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Anybody who thinks Boulder has had some vicious storms recently should take a look at photos of a storm that has been raging on Saturn -- for the past seven months.
Full Story Recently, UCAR's Cooperative Program for Operational Meteorology, Education and Training, or COMET, program, which focuses on education and outreach, gave the MetEd website a facelift.
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The Front Range Pika Project is recruiting "citizen scientists" -- hikers willing to go to remote high-altitude talus sites to monitor the region's pika population.
Full Story If the U.S. Congress does not provide the necessary funding to build and launch the country's planned next-generation weather satellite, meteorologists' ability to accurately predict the weather will be hobbled. That was the warning delivered Tuesday in Boulder by an administrator of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
Full Story When Andrew Murray signed up for Twitter in 2008, the Boulder resident never expected he would be live-tweeting the final space shuttle launch for NASA three years later.
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NASA recently held a lottery to select 150 of its Twitter followers to participate in a two-day Tweetup, an informal meeting of Twitter users, on July 7-8. Boulder's Andrew Murray and the other 149 Twitter users will attend the launch of Atlantis, marking the last shuttle mission before the program is discontinued.
Full Story A week ago, I stood on the shore of a lake in the Sand Hills of Nebraska, watching the sun rise through diaphanous clouds.
Full Story The University Corporation for Atmospheric Research has eliminated 21 NCAR positions in Boulder, according to Communications Director Matt Hirschland.
Full Story DENVER -- Colorado`s wood industry needs stability if companies are going to invest in equipment that would help residents mitigate and fight wildfires threatening their communities, U.
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Two million years from now, a single tooth might well be all that's left of you. Tooth enamel is the hardest substance in the human body, packed dense with mineral elements such as calcium and strontium.
Full Story DENVER -- Denver Water says it came perilously close to running out of water in its collection system north of Denver during the 2002 drought.
Full Story DENVER -- Colorado congressman Doug Lamborn is one of nine House members asking that funds be yanked from programs that finance the National Renewable Energy Laboratory in suburban Denver.
Full Story The teeth of early human relatives tell a story about how ancient hominids traveled in southern Africa more than a million years ago, according to a new study led by the University of Colorado.
Full Story DENVER -- Researchers are in a race against time as they dig up Ice Age era fossils in western Colorado. The Denver Museum of Nature & Science has 40 days to excavate a site near Aspen where more than 100 bones have been unearthed, including mastodon skulls and pelvises and mammoth tusks.
Full Story Researchers at the China Meteorological Administration are now working to expand their ability to measure greenhouse gases across their massive country -- and they're relying on Boulder scientists to help them.
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In the last few months, NASA's next weather satellite has taken a beating in Boulder. It's been shaken, blasted with noise and structurally shocked in preparation for its October launch.
Full Story PETERSON AIR FORCE BASE -- U.S. and Canadian military commanders say they are examining their rescue capabilities in the Arctic as a shrinking ice cap brought about by climate change opens up rich oil and gas reserves and draws more commercial traffic to the top of the globe.
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An ancient human relative may have more in common with modern cows than with modern people, at least in terms of what they ate, according to a new study by a research team that included a University of Colorado scientist.
Full Story When the space shuttle Endeavour blasts off Friday afternoon, it will be carrying an instrument built by Boulder-based Ball Aerospace that may enable the spacecraft of the future to land on asteroids, the moon or even Mars.
Full Story Odele Coddington, a researcher at the University of Colorado's Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics, will give a free talk May 4 called "Clouds in the Earth's lower atmosphere: Views from near and far give insight into their regulation of climate."
Full Story The University of Colorado has been named one of two finalists to host the headquarters for the National Solar Observatory, a ground-based scientific research program studying solar physics and space weather.
Full Story Researchers have found northern leopard frogs -- which are being considered for protection in the West under the Endangered Species Act -- at four locations on Boulder County open space land.
Full Story WASHINGTON -- Millions of gallons of potentially hazardous chemicals and known carcinogens were injected into wells by leading oil and gas service companies from 2005 to 2009, a report by three House Democrats said Saturday.
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ReSource Yard is celebrating its 15th year in Boulder with a celebration on Friday, Earth Day. The festivities include live music, games, food, local artwork and displays from environmental groups.
Full Story Elon Musk, founder and chief executive officer of SpaceX and Tesla Motors, will join Alan Stern, a scientist at Southwest Research Institute in Boulder, to give a talk on April 29 about the future of commercial spaceflight
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