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Several sunflowers grow in a field

Why do plants wiggle? New study provides answers

Aug. 15, 2024

Decades after his voyage on the HMS Beagle, Charles Darwin became fascinated by why plants move as they grow鈥攕pinning and twisting into corkscrews. Now, more than 150 years later, a new study may have solved the riddle.

A group of adelie penguins on iceberg

Southern Ocean鈥檚 hidden treasures: Scientists identify crucial wildlife conservation sites

Aug. 14, 2024

Establishing Key Biodiversity Areas in the Southern Ocean will be vital for safeguarding the ecosystem from the impact of human activities, 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 researchers say.

Public bus in Denver

Free bus fare didn鈥檛 yield better air

Aug. 13, 2024

New research by 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 doctoral student Grant Webster finds that the free-fare public transit initiative didn鈥檛 reduce ground-level ozone but may have other benefits.

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson

Why did a frozen Earth coincide with an evolutionary spurt?

Aug. 12, 2024

Geologists Lizzy Trower and Carl Simpson have won $1 million in support from the W.M. Keck Foundation to try to solve an evolutionary puzzle and extend Earth鈥檚 temperature record by 2 billion years.

Seonsik Yun and Doug Day stand on the roof of La Casa, an air quality research site in Denver.

Rooftop science: Surveying Denver鈥檚 air

July 31, 2024

CU researchers are taking part in a national project to identify sources of urban air pollution. The data will contribute to research related to both health and climate.

A view of a burned neighborhood in Lousiville,CO after the Marshall Fire.

Wildfires don鈥檛 just burn. They can also pollute aquatic ecosystems

July 29, 2024

蜜桃传媒破解版下载 chemist Lauren Magliozzi shares her findings from the devastating Marshall Fire, detailing the fire's impact on aquatic ecosystems.

Icebergs in the Ilulissat Icefjord, Greenland

Warming has more impact than cooling on Greenland's 鈥榝irn鈥�

July 26, 2024

A new 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 study has found disproportionate effects of temperature shifts on an icy glacier layer.

Power lines against the sky

Weather-related power outages are on the rise. Here鈥檚 why, what to expect in the future

July 23, 2024

Extreme weather is straining the country鈥檚 aging power grid from Texas to Colorado and California. Kyri Baker, who studies infrastructure, offers her perspective on what the grid of the future could look like.

Smoke Stacks Against Blue Sky

Converting captured carbon to fuel: Study assesses what鈥檚 practical and what鈥檚 not

July 22, 2024

A new analysis sheds light on major shortfalls of a recently proposed approach to capture CO2 from air and directly convert it to fuel using electricity. The authors also provide a new, more sustainable, alternative.

a redpoll finch

The redpoll finch saga: How two bird species just became one

July 18, 2024

The American Ornithological Society reclassified two previously distinct species of finch as one, based on genetic research by 蜜桃传媒破解版下载 scientists. The move knocks one name off birders鈥� 鈥渓ife list鈥� and raises questions about what a species really is.

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