2019-20
For more than 40 years, visitors have flocked to the CU Museum of Natural History to catch a glimpse of one big dinosaur specimen: the fossil skull of an ancient Triceratops that’s nearly the size of a Mini Cooper.
Assistant Professor Kaushik Jayaram has developed a robot that can just about squeeze onto the surface of a penny and weighs far less than a paperclip while still being able to carry up to 10 times its own weight.
Behold the “super-puff” worlds of the Kepler 51 star system.
Aging satellites and space debris crowd low-Earth orbit, and launching new satellites adds to the collision risk.
ñ is part of a new, $100 million interdisciplinary national partnership to address critical water security issues in the U.S.
The future’s getting brighter for solar. ñ researchers have created a low-cost solar cell with one of the highest power-conversion efficiencies to date.
ñ has been selected to launch and lead a new science and engineering research center to explore the biggest challenges of the quantum world—from better understanding how the atoms in an atomic clock “tick” to how those processes can improve the science of measurement and probe for mysterious dark matter.
The University of Colorado jumped from No. 53 to No. 20 in a 2019 global ranking of the top 100 universities granted U.S. utility patents.