Astronauts on the moon could mine ice for drinking water or to make rocket fuel. A new study pinpoints a few cold, dark ...

With snowpack at 40% of normal, a CU Boulder hydrologist explains why this year’s snow drought stands out and what it could ...

2026 event information will be announced this summer.

We're part of something big.This anniversary provides our communities a rare chance to reflect on where we’ve been, examine ...

In CUriosity, experts across the CU Boulder campus answer questions about humans, our planet and the universe beyond. Shemin Ge, professor in the Department of Geological Sciences, shares how a source ...

Heather Demarest (PhD, Rutgers, 2013) was born and raised in Boulder and graduated from CU with degrees in both philosophy (summa) and physics (summa). She earned a BPhil in philosophy from Oxford and ...

Sustainability at CU Boulder is not a separate discipline—it is a core principle woven into the common curriculum and manifested in the many pathways available to our undergraduate students.

After four months of hearings, the South Dakota Water Management Board approved TransCanada/TC Energy to use local water sources for their Keystone XL project. The widely contested oil pipeline runs ...

Banner image: Wil Srubar holds a sample cube of concrete that contains biogenic limestone produced by calcifying macro- and microalgae. (Credit: Glenn Asakawa/CU Boulder) Global cement production ...

Scientists have a good idea of what would happen after a nuclear war on land: Soot would fill the atmosphere and block the sun, leading to worldwide crop failures and famine. But, until recently, they ...

The world is full of robber flies—approximately 7,000 species have been recognized worldwide and 1,000 are native to North America A robber fly perched on a flat piece of sandstone in the red rock ...

For decades, studies have shown that children able to resist temptation—opting to wait for two marshmallows later rather than take one now—tend to do better on measures of health and success later in ...