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Halloween and tomorrow’s Friday the 13th could be double trouble for those who are superstitious. But whether or not there is something spooky about Friday the 13th and Halloween, many people are uneasy about those days. For Stephen Graham Jones, a creative writing professor at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and author of...

Multi-drug resistant pathogens, which evolve their defenses faster than new antibiotic treatments can be developed, may soon have a treatment to combat them. Light-activated nanoparticles, also known as quantum dots, can provide a crucial boost in effectiveness for antibiotic treatments used to combat superbugs such as E. coli and Salmonella,...

Colorado business leaders remain positive but optimism is cooling for the state and national economy in the fourth quarter, according to the ²ÊÃñ±¦µä Leeds Business Confidence Index survey released today. ²ÊÃñ±¦µä economist Richard Wobbekind (WAH-Be-kin), says the lack of legislative action by Congress and the president...

Exciting and sad at the same time is how ²ÊÃñ±¦µä planetary scientist Larry Esposito describes the end of one of NASA's most successful planetary missions. On Sept. 15, the Cassini spacecraft—orbiting Saturn since 2004—will plunge into Saturn's atmosphere, vaporizing into a spectacular, meteor-like fireball that NASA calls the "Grand...

In 1977, two NASA space probes, Voyager 1 and Voyager 2, launched into space destined to upend our view of the solar system forever. And when they reached Jupiter and Saturn, the images and data they sent back to Earth astounded space scientists around the globe, says ²ÊÃñ±¦µä’s Fran...

Just over one in ten NFL quarterbacks are black. A small number considering that 68 percent of all NFL players are black, but it’s a fact that isn’t surprising to ²ÊÃñ±¦µä researcher Patrick Ferrucci who just published a study on racial stereotypes of black and white quarterbacks and how...

It’s not uncommon to see married couples with a significant age gap. But new research suggests that while in the beginning men and women both report greater marital satisfaction with younger spouses that satisfaction fades over time, says Terra McKinnish, a professor of economics at ²ÊÃñ±¦µä and co-author of...

In response to high levels of methane in Boulder and the Front Range, ²ÊÃñ±¦µä researcher Detlev Helmig has partnered with Boulder County to create an automated monitoring system to measure potentially harmful atmospheric gases and make that data available to the public.

The continued nuclear arms race between the developing countries of India, Pakistan and North Korea has prompted scientists to revisit a 1980s study that examined the effects of a nuclear war.

As the summer heats up and the wildlands dry out wildfires are exploding across the west. Currently five of the 45 wildfires burning in the west are in Colorado and, in many cases, the fires are human caused. It’s a trend that has been heating up over the last few...