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Fathers-to-be, take note: You may be more useful in the labor and delivery room than you realize. That’s one takeaway from a study released last week that found that when an empathetic partner holds the hand of a woman in pain, their heart and respiratory rates sync and her pain dissipates.
Climate change is altering tree-leafing dates faster than birds are adapting, researchers find.
Yes, there will be togas. No, it won’t be boring. The Colorado Shakespeare Festival’s 60th season continues with an homage to the plays performed during its first-ever summer in 1958, including a production of “Julius Caesar†set in classical Rome. But while the setting evokes ancient history, Director Anthony Powell assures audiences that this play is anything but.
Low-wage workers tend to commute away from states that raise the minimum wage rather than toward them, according to a surprising new CU Boulder study that suggests wage-hiking initiatives could have unintended consequences for some they aim to help.
This summer’s “Hamlet,†opening June 23 and running through Aug. 13, will be the ninth production in CSF history—but it’ll be the first to be staged indoors with a woman in the title role.
CU Boulder doctoral candidate Adenife Modile, who studies fertility and maternal health worldwide, travels to Tanzania this month as a Population Reference Bureau fellow.
For centuries eyes have been considered “windows to the soul.†New research by CU Boulder scientist Daniel Lee suggests those widened or squinted eyes (and the raised or furrowed brows that often come with them) originated as much more than social cues.
A CU Boulder project is ramping up efforts to provide the public with the latest information about research related to healthy aging, including scientific evidence on what to do and eat for better health.
Offshore wind turbines built according to current standards may not be able to withstand the powerful gusts of a Category 5 hurricane, creating potential risk for any such turbines built in hurricane-prone areas, new University of Colorado Boulder-led research shows.
Two galaxy clusters in the process of merging created a layer of surprisingly hot gas between them that CU Boulder astronomers believe is from turbulence caused by banging into each other at supersonic speeds.