Research
- City trees benefit human health more than grass, research finds
- 'The cool thing is that this was motivated by looking at the hogbacks right outside our windows; no one had explained their shape before,' says Rachel Glade
- Questions remain about the respiratory risk posed to a fifth of the United States population by increasing wildfires—but a researcher is trying to clear the air.
- China is launching huge infrastructure projects as a way to broaden its global influence. For scholars at , this trend raises new questions they aim to address with support from the Henry Luce Foundation.
- Although tumbleweeds were familiar icons of the West, they were not native to the West, nor were they growing around the early western towns when they were established.
- A first look at the intersection of climate change and the relatively good health of new migrants—or “healthy migrant effect”— suggests that the changing climate might propel less-healthy people to migrate from Mexico to the United States.
- Marijuana may not be as damaging to the brain as previously thought, according to new research from the and the CU Change Lab.
- Coloradans “firmly disapprove” of President Donald Trump and the U.S. Congress, have waning confidence in state lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, and overwhelmingly support “Dreamers,” research shows.
- New study sheds light on key protein in memory formation and its potential role in the treatment of neurological diseases.
- Compiling the first global atlas of soil bacteria, researchers have identified a group of around 500 key species that are both common and abundant worldwide.