Science & Technology
Last year, CU Boulder helped to launch a record 35 new companies. These businesses are pioneering new technologies from sensors for monitoring soil health to breathalyzers that can sniff out signs of lung cancer.
In a recent study, CU Boulder’s Robert Moulder and colleagues found that individuals with trait neuroticism rarely modify how they respond to negative emotions.
CU Boulder’s Living Materials Laboratory contributed to groundbreaking research showing how engineered microbes can create bioglass microlenses, paving the way for advanced imaging technologies in medicine and materials science.
As the clock ticks down for TikTok, Casey Fiesler, a technology ethicist at CU Boulder, says that U.S. lawmakers are focusing on the harms of social media and not the benefits.
Scientists use devices known as frequency comb lasers to search for methane in the air above oil and gas operations and to screen for signs of infection in human breath. A new study from CU Boulder could help make these sensors even more precise.
CU Boulder anthropologist Matt Sponheimer says the 3.2 million-year-old hominin â€Lucy†is pivotal to the science of human origins a half-century after her discovery.
A new quantum incubator coming to Colorado will provide private companies with a testbed to transform ideas for quantum technologies into products that will benefit consumers in the Mountain West and beyond.
CU Boulder’s Center for Infrastructure, Energy, and Space Testing has pioneered testing procedures for innovative pipe replacement solutions for aging urban pipes buried beneath buildings and roads.
Shuo Sun, associate fellow at JILA and assistant professor in the Department of Physics, has been awarded an NSF CAREER Award for his research proposal, “Developing a High-Dimensional Photonic Quantum Register for the Quantum Internet.â€
Three CU Boulder researchers have joined a newly funded project to develop secure quantum networks.