In a new rom-com, Scarlett Johansson plays a PR maven hired to film a fake version of the moon landing. Media scholar Rick Stevens gives his take on why conspiracy theories around the moon landing have such staying power.
On June 25, the last instrument in a series designed and built in Colorado, is scheduled to launch aboard an orbiting satellite. It's part of a program that spots flares leaping out from around the sun before they can cause trouble on Earth.
Light pollution from streetlights and other sources is making dark skies harder to find. CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ astronomer Erica Ellingson gives her take on where you can still go in Colorado to see brilliant displays of stars.
A new facility will give researchers from Colorado and across the country a space to think up and design devices that tap into the world of atoms and even smaller things—potentially leading to new sensors, ultra-fast computer chips and more.
Researchers at the ATLAS Institute at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ hope their DIY machine will help designers around the world experiment with making their own, sustainable fashion and other textiles from a range of natural ingredients—maybe even the chitin in crab shells or agar-agar from algae.
This year, schools across Colorado experienced an influx of students, many of them migrants from Latin and South America. A small but dedicated group of scholars at CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ are helping teachers meet the needs of these new arrivals.
In the 1970s, Denver became the first and only city to be named an Olympics host, then later back out. A new study shows that Colorado’s feelings about the Games remain complicated today.
Odysseus, a tenacious lander built by the company Intuitive Machines, almost didn't make it to the moon. But an experiment aboard the spacecraft managed to capture an image of Earth as it might look to observers on a planet far from our own.
At a ceremony May 28 on the CU ºù«ÍÞÊÓƵ campus, Colorado Gov. Jared Polis ushered in a new bill to support the state’s rapidly growing quantum industry.
In 1612, astronomer Galileo Galilei observed dark splotches can sunspots moving across the face of the sun. A new study could reveal the engine that drives these cloudy features, and much of the sun's volatile activity.