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- Six years ago, Mark Rentschler helped launch startup company Aspero Medical to develop a medical device used during endoscopy procedures. Today, with the help of grant, Rentschler and team are bringing two new medical devices to the market that have the potential to transform gastrointestinal surgeries.
- Fran Bagenal, a senior research scientist at the Laboratory of Atmospheric and Space Physics at ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ Boulder, has been named to the NASA Advisory Council’s Science Committee.
- Fairies and dragons and love! Oh my! An expert on romance fiction digs into one of the publishing industry's hottest trends.
- Last year, ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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.
- A new quantum incubator coming to ÃÛÌÇÖ±²¥ 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.
- Biologist Jingchun Li shares her research in marine animals and the unique ways they illuminate the sea.
- Professor Emeritus Marc Bekoff shares his decades of research on the emotional lives of animals and how it could influence wildlife management.
- Dust storms on Mars could one day pose dangers to human astronauts, damaging equipment and burying solar panels. New research gets closer to predicting when extreme weather might erupt on the Red Planet.
- Being awake when your body thinks you should be sleeping can make you more susceptible to viruses, make your wounds heal more slowly and promote weight gain. And don't even think about driving the day after an all-nighter.
- Scientists demonstrate how a series of extreme weather events could lead to the Arctic’s first ice-free day within just a few years.