Man installing solar panel on roof of house

Can startups be the vessel for solving climate change?

Entrepreneurs in the business of protecting the environment may be more effective at addressing climate change than sweeping policies or large corporations, according to a study from the Leeds School of Business.

View of the Tunnel Fire seen from Bonito Park on April 19, 2022

A ‘revolution’ in environmental data science

New national center at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä will tackle pressing socio-environmental challenges with big data analytics and more

Drone above fields, buildings

The future of autonomous airborne drones

Smead Aerospace will house a new NSF Industry-University Cooperative Research Center (IUCRC) on autonomous air mobility and sensing

Students from Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering with compatible antenna

Students develop deployable antenna for use on small satellites

A group of students from the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering have developed a compactable antenna that could allow for more powerful radio communications from the small satellites of the future.

Graduate students and LASP engineer Nicholas DeCicco install CUTE into LANDSAT-9

New cereal box-sized satellite to explore alien planets

A new miniature satellite designed and built at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) has mighty goals.

An artist’s rendition of NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission

Students operate $214M NASA spacecraft: ‘It’s like what you see in the movies’

Over the next two years, ²ÊÃñ±¦µä undergraduates working as flight controllers at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) will help manage the day-to-day mission operations of NASA’s Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft.

HyperSpectral Imager for Climate Science (HySICS)

75 years of innovation in space research

²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics continues to build a legacy of expanding the frontiers of scientific knowledge

JILA’s 3-D quantum gas atomic clock

Colorado's quantum awakening

A wealth of research, education, federal labs, established industry leaders and startups is creating a Quantum Silicon Valley

Researcher using quantum sensor to detect methane

Researchers sniff out methane leaks with quantum sensors

A team of ²ÊÃñ±¦µä engineers, and one startup company called LongPath Technologies, are taking a whiff of that Colorado air: They’re using advanced laser technology to spot methane leaking from pipes at oil and gas operations across the West.

Crystal structure of a layer of graphyne

Long-hypothesized ‘next-generation wonder material’ created for first time

For over a decade, scientists have attempted to synthesize a new form of carbon called graphyne with limited success.

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