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CU-Boulder students to be at controls for NASA planet-hunting mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 19, 2009 |
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University of Colorado at Boulder students will be at the controls of one of NASA's most intriguing missions in recent years following the scheduled March 5 launch of the Kepler spacecraft to hunt down Earth-like ...
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CU-Boulder to build $6 million instrument for NASA lunar orbiter
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Jan 10, 2009 |
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The University of Colorado at Boulder has been awarded a $6 million grant from NASA to build a high-tech lunar dust detector for a 2011 mission to orbit the moon and conduct science investigations of the dusty lunar surface ...
Evolution education for K-12 teachers needs beefing up, says CU-Boulder professor
Feb 15, 2009 |
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A failure to grasp the fundamentals of biological systems may be leaving K-12 teachers and students vulnerable to claims by intelligent design creationists, new-age homeopaths and other "hucksters," according to a University ...
Invasive plants challenge scientists in face of environmental change
Jan 13, 2009 |
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Managing invasive plant species on the Great Plains has become more challenging in recent years in the face of human-caused environmental change, including the positive responses of invaders to altered atmospheric chemistry ...
CU-Boulder team to build $34 million instrument package for environmental satellite
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May 13, 2008 |
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A $34 million solar instrument package to be built by the University of Colorado at Boulder, considered a crucial tool to help monitor global climate change, has been restored to a U.S. government satellite ...
New Test Results Deepen Mystery Surrounding Explorer Everett Ruess
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Oct 22, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Colorado at Boulder analysis of a skeleton found in Utah that initially indicated the remains were likely that of Southwest artist and poet Everett Ruess, who mysteriously disappeared in the ...
Researchers Show Why Peer Discussion Improves Student Performance on 'Clicker' Questions
Jan 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Across the University of Colorado at Boulder campus students are sharing answers, checking their responses to questions against those of their neighbors and making adjustments to those answers ...
Team identifies stem cells that repair injured muscles
Mar 05, 2009 |
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A University of Colorado at Boulder research team has identified a type of skeletal muscle stem cell that contributes to the repair of damaged muscles in mice, which could have important implications in the treatment of injured, ...
Spectrograph Team Awaits October Hubble Servicing Mission
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Aug 22, 2008 |
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A $70 million instrument designed by the University of Colorado at Boulder that will be inserted on the Hubble Space Telescope during an October 2008 servicing mission should help astronomers better understand how galaxies, ...
CU-Boulder Unmanned Aircraft Buzz Over Gigantic Holes in Antarctic Sea Ice
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 10, 2009 |
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A series of record-setting unmanned research flights are providing University of Colorado at Boulder researchers with some of the first 3-D observations of gaping holes in the Antarctic sea ice known as polynyas ...
Earth's highest known microbial systems fueled by volcanic gases
Mar 03, 2009 |
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Gases rising from deep within the Earth are fueling the world's highest-known microbial ecosystems, which have been detected near the rim of the 19,850-foot-high Socompa volcano in the Andes by a University ...
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