New data suggests lots of time on screens may even improve peer relationships, but the study comes with caveats. Doctoral student Katie Paulich shares on The Conversation.
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Plants don’t just grow straight up—they can move in loopy and zigzagging ways to get more sunshine. Physicists were able to model a sunflower to predict how they grow. Read from CU expert Chantal Nguyen on The Conversation. Read more
CU expert Julian Resasco visited the same Rocky Mountain subalpine meadow weekly for a decade of summers—here's what he learned. Read on The Conversation. Read more
New analyses of bones, teeth, genetics and artifacts suggest it’s time to revise a long-standing hypothesis for how humans domesticated horses. Read from CU expert William Taylor on The Conversation. Read more