Go to the doctor to provide a blood sample and you’re typically faced with a needle and syringe and hours or even days of waiting to get results back from a...
In our new, biweekly series CUriosity, experts across the CU Boulder campus answer pressing questions about humans, our planet and the universe beyond. This...
“Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?” “The world is running out of children as global birth rates collapse!” “Could a declining...
Too much screen time impairs sleep for children and adolescents, and it’s largely the content on those screens that keeps them awake. But it remains less clear...
Changing people’s behavior until a vaccine could be developed prevented roughly 800,000 COVID-19 deaths in the U.S., far more than many scientists predicted...
Twenty-five years ago this week, two Columbine High School 12th graders gunned down 12 classmates and one teacher at their Littleton, Colorado, school in what...
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...
A bit of weed before a workout can boost motivation and make exercise more enjoyable. But if performance is the goal, it may be best to skip that joint. That’s...
Excessive heat can sicken and, in some cases, kill. During last summer’s heat wave in Europe, 62,000 people perished. Yet the threat heat poses is often...
With a new $1.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, Casey Fiesler, Stephen Voida and collaborators from computer science and CU Anschutz hope...
This week, scientists from CU Boulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) made an important leap forward in the quest to diagnose...
Through partnerships with school districts, mental health agencies and community groups, the new CU Boulder Center for Resilience and Well-Being provides...
Get more exercise. Eat right. Make new friends. As we compile our lists of resolutions aimed at improving physical and mental health in 2023, new CU Boulder...
In the dream clinic of the future, patients struggling with mental illness might — in addition to sharing their feelings with a therapist — have their brain...
With a new $2 million grant from the Bureau of Justice Assistance, the Center for the Study and Prevention of Violence (CSPV) at CU Boulder aims to help 40...
Exposure to air pollution in the first six months of life impacts a child’s inner world of gut bacteria, or microbiome, in ways that could increase risk of...
After years of progress in the battle against antimicrobial-resistance, so-called “superbugs” have made a concerning comeback in the age of COVID, with...
More than half of people diagnosed with one psychiatric disorder will be diagnosed with a second or third in their lifetime. About a third have four or more...
“OMG. Have you guys heard about this?” So began a 2015 post by then-pregnant celebrity influencer Kim Kardashian, singing the praises of a “#morningsickness”...
To confront the existential threat that is climate change, governments, industry and institutions of higher education must give voice to those most affected by...
Even slight exposure to light can prompt the critical sleep-promoting hormone melatonin to plummet in preschoolers in the hour before bedtime, potentially...
Heading into the first day of in-person voting, Colorado women are leaning overwhelmingly blue, tipping the state toward high single-digit leads for Democrat...
Facebook is a more fertile breeding ground for fake news than Twitter, and those on the far ends of the liberal-conservative spectrum are most likely to share...
Imagine a test that could tell you if you were infected with COVID-19 before you had a single symptom, came at an affordable price without the need to go to a...
Can school shootings be prevented? Twenty years after two teenage gunmen fatally shot 12 students and 1 teacher at Columbine High School in Littleton, the...
