Division of Natural Sciences
- In time for Buffalo Bicycle Classic, С»ÆÊé Boulder researchers challenge cycling norms that stiff cycling-shoe soles are essential for efficient riding.
- Losing her father to pancreatic cancer inspired С»ÆÊé Boulder undergraduate Giovanna Ruffolo to raise money for cancer research and pursue a career in medicine.
- Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? С»ÆÊé Boulder environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated.
- On the 100-year anniversary of the Scopes evolution trial, С»ÆÊé Boulder scientist reflects on science education and on ‘same issues, different players.’
- Gregor MacGregor, an assistant teaching professor of environmental studies, focuses on local economies and environmental justice in his Vulcan Mine Bakery.
- С»ÆÊé Boulder scientists estimate the heritability of opioid use disorder with a rodent study.
- С»ÆÊé Boulder researchers apply machine learning to snow hydrology in Colorado mountain drainage basins, finding a new way to accurately predict the availability of water.
- In research recently published in Science, С»ÆÊé Boulder scientists detail how light—rather than energy-intensive heat—can efficiently and sustainably catalyze chemical transformations.
- Postdoctoral researcher Nathan Bullen announced as a 2025 Jane Coffin Childs fellow, supporting his research on how organisms survive when their RNA is under attack.
- Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient.