A new international study sheds light on why the 55-and-older set tends to share more fake news on social media—and what can ...

Water consumption in the Colorado River Basin continues to outstrip natural supply, causing steep declines in reservoir storage. This paper looks at the realistically accessible amount of storage in ...

In haunted houses across the country this month, threatening figures will jump out of the shadows, prompting visitors — wide-eyed and heart racing —to instinctively freeze and flee. Evolutionarily ...

A major question looms over Colorado’s energy future: why does geothermal energy, a renewable resource, remain virtually ...

To kick off the International Year of Quantum Science and Technology in 2025, three Colorado universities in collaboration with Elevate Quantum have announced that a new facility for fostering quantum ...

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 ...

Labor Day is a widely-celebrated American holiday. For many, the day marks the end of summer and the beginning of the school year. But beyond the opportunity for indulging in barbecues and poolside ...

60 years after its legalization, people are still attracted to the lottery because of the strong emotions associated with imagining the future, CU Boulder psychologist says Sixty years ago last week, ...

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 ...

Yet 12 years after Colorado and Washington became the first U.S. states to legalize recreational cannabis, police still lack a reliable method for detecting whether someone smoked a joint or ate a ...

Imagine a day when joints could heal themselves. At the first inkling of a creaky knee, patients could get a single shot in the joint that would not only stop their cartilage and bone from eroding, ...

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 ...