Science & Technology

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    <p>Playing in schoolyards that feature natural habitats and trees and not just asphalt and recreation equipment reduces children鈥檚 stress and inattention, according to a University of Colorado Boulder study.</p>
  • <p>Coming up in the CU-Boulder鈥檚 <a href="http://atlas.colorado.edu/wordpress/?page_id=542" target="_blank">ATLAS Black Box Theater</a> is <a href="http://squareproducttheatre.org/" target="_blank">square product theatre鈥檚</a> production of "SLAB," an adaptation of Denver writer Selah Saterstrom鈥檚 forthcoming novel. The story is about a woman鈥檚 life in the American South told through her memories and from the slab of her post-Katrina home.</p>
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    <p>An international team led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and involving the University of Colorado Boulder has a new tool to look for the oldest galaxies in the universe: 32 days of observing time with the Hubble Space Telescope.</p>
  • <p>Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget.</p>
    <p>Observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado Boulder and installed on the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that the universe is 鈥渕issing鈥 a large amount of light.</p>
  • <p>Deborah Jin has won the 2014 Isaac Newton Medal, the highest accolade given by the Institute of Physics. She was cited for her experimental work in laser cooling atoms. This work has led to the practical demonstration of universal laws that upderpin fundamental quantum behavior.聽</p>
  • Tapir-Hedgehog
    <p>Meet perhaps the tiniest hedgehog species ever:聽<em>Silvacola acares.聽</em>Its roughly 52-million-year-old fossil remains were recently identified by a University of Colorado Boulder-led team working in British Columbia.</p>
    <p><span id="">The hedgehog鈥檚 scientific name means 鈥渢iny forest dweller,鈥 said CU-Boulder Associate Professor Jaelyn Eberle of the geological sciences department, lead author on the study. The creature -- a new genus and species to science -- was only about 2 inches long, roughly the length of an adult thumb.</span></p>
  • <p class="p1">The massive increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma is likely being caused by the injection of vast amounts of wastewater from oil and gas operations into underground layers of rock, according to a new study led by Cornell University and involving the University of Colorado Boulder.</p>
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    <p class="p1">Kangaroos may be nature鈥檚 best hoppers. But when they are grazing on all fours, which is most of the time, their tail becomes a powerful fifth leg, says a new study.</p>
  • <p>Sharks were a tolerant bunch some 50 million years ago, cruising an Arctic Ocean that contained about the same percentage of freshwater as Louisiana鈥檚 Lake Ponchatrain does today, says a new study involving the University of Colorado Boulder and the University of Chicago.</p>
  • <p>The Institute of Education Sciences at the U.S. Department of Education has awarded nearly $5 million to the University of Colorado Boulder, the Center for Education Policy Research at Harvard University and Northwestern University to create a new center that will study how educational leaders鈥攊ncluding school district supervisors and principals鈥攗se research when making decisions and what can be done to make research findings more useful and relevant for those leaders.</p>
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