A picture of a spotty yellow fish.

How animals get their stripes and spots

Nov. 8, 2023

New Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê research helps explain how sharp patterns form on zebras, leopards, tropical fish and other creatures. Their findings could inform the development of new high-tech materials and drugs.

Close-up of the head of a yellowspot rabbitfish with orange spots and purple skin

How animals get their skin patterns is a matter of physics

Nov. 8, 2023

Understanding how animals’ intricate spots and stripes form can help scientists mimic those processes in the lab, potentially improving medical diagnostics and synthetic materials in the future. Read from CU expert Ankur Gupta on The Conversation.

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Should AI read your college essay? It’s complicated

Nov. 8, 2023

Artificial intelligence tools should never replace human admissions officers, says Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê scientist Sidney D’Mello. But new research suggests these platforms could help colleges and universities identify promising students amid mountains of applications.

Cat with turquoise eyes (Tambako The Jaguar/Flickr)

How a dirty litter box could slow you down as you age

Nov. 6, 2023

Some people infected with the common, cat-borne parasite Toxoplasma gondii are more likely to be frail as they get older, new research shows.

Cornelius Adejoro, Seungwook Lee and Larissa Schwartz

How will AI shape the next generation?

Nov. 6, 2023

Step into the Center for the Brain, AI and Child and learn from its members how artificial intelligence will impact the next generation of children and their caretakers around the world as the technology becomes a new normal.

Scott Diddams with his students in the lab

Researchers to test Einstein’s predictions of general relativity atop Rocky Mountains

Nov. 6, 2023

Imagine being able to measure tiny changes in the flow of time caused by Earth’s gravity with atomic clocks atop one of Colorado’s iconic peaks. That could soon be a reality thanks to an NSF grant that will advance geodesy through the use of quantum sensors, some of the most precise in the world.

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Humans and computers work together for tutoring success

Nov. 6, 2023

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê was chosen to join the new Learning Engineering Virtual Institute with the aim of doubling the rate of middle school math learning within five years by building a hybrid human-AI tutoring platform that will reach over 275,000 diverse, low-income students.

Pegboard with 25 holes and small, keyhole-shaped metal pegs

Your brain remembers what your fingers used to do

Nov. 3, 2023

New Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê research demonstrates that, with practice, older adults can regain manual dexterity that may have seemed lost.

1923 Renaissance basketball team, New York City

A century ago, a Black-owned team ruled basketball

Nov. 2, 2023

In 1923, one of the top professional basketball franchises began play in Harlem, challenging the dominance of white sports. Today there are no Black majority owners in any of the four major North American sports leagues. Read from CU expert Jared Bahir Browsh on The Conversation.

The majestic Flatirons above Boulder framed in fall colors.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê logs another record-breaking year in research funding

Nov. 2, 2023

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê researchers attracted a record $684.2 million in fiscal year 2022–23 for studies that, among other things, elevate quantum science in Colorado, solve mysteries about the sun and provide even better data on sea ice, ice sheets, glaciers and more.

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