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To the untrained eye, University of Colorado at Boulder Research Associate Craig Lee’s recent discovery of a 10,000-year-old wooden hunting weapon might look like a small branch that blew off a tree in a windstorm.

From left to right, Ashley Ballantyne of the University of Colorado at Boulder, Dara Finney of Environment Canada and Natalia Rybczynski of the Canadian Museum of Nature search for fossils in a peat deposit at Strathcona Fiord on Ellesmere Island in

A mobile fish lab on Boulder Creek is helping researcher assess the health of fish exposed to endocrine-disrupting chemicals polluting the waterway that can cause male fish to be feminized and decline in numbers. Image courtesy Alan Vajda,

Joan Schirle lends expertise to CU TheatreThe average Boulderite may not realize how his body movements speak volumes about demeanor, attitude or mood.Joan Schirle definitely does.While observing her workshop at the CU Theatre recently, I bore

Only eight months after the tsunami, permanent houses had been provided for victims in the southern town of Hambantota, shown here, the home district of Sri Lanka's president. Tamils and Muslims on the eastern and northern coasts waited up to five

Participatory governance is the darling of policymakers and world-organizations seeking to improve the well-being of the impoverished. The claim is that by increasing the citizens’ direct involvement with the decision-making process, the quality of

An extremely small RNA molecule created by a University of Colorado team can catalyze a key reaction needed to synthesize proteins, the building blocks of life. The findings could be a substantial step toward understanding “the very origin of

Study finds that, for many, drugs work no better than placebos, but resulting firestorm may have obscured nuancesNewsweek heralded the “depressing news about antidepressants” and suggested that drugs like Prozac are “basically expensive Tic Tacs.”

Gravity always wins, one might think. Avalanches roar and skiers plunge inexorably downhill. But moguls—or bumps, as they’re known by skiers—move uphill.Just ask lead researcher David Bahr, a Regis University professor and former CU geological

Illustration of the NASA Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, or GRACE. Image courtesy of NASA.Northern India’s groundwater is being pumped onto farm fields faster than it can be replenished by monsoons, and the rate of loss is accelerating, a