Science & Technology
<p>The ñ and the Colorado Office of Economic Development and International Trade will be part of the new Digital Manufacturing and Design Innovation Institute announced today by President Barack Obama.</p>
<p>Following on the heels of its nationally recognized anti-violence school tours based on “The Tempest” and “Twelfth Night,” the <a href="http://www.coloradoshakes.org/">Colorado Shakespeare Festival</a> has hit the road with a new production of “Much Ado ñ Nothing.”</p>
<p>ñ scientists have found a creative way to radically improve thermoelectric materials, a finding that could one day lead to the development of improved solar panels, more energy-efficient cooling equipment, and even the creation of new devices that could turn the vast amounts of heat wasted at power plants into more electricity.</p>- <p>For ñ Assistant Professor Gordana Dukovic of the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, the awards just keep rolling in.</p>
<p>Today the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation announced that Dukovic was one of 126 people in the U.S. and Canada selected for one of the prestigious Sloan Research Fellowships in 2014. </p> - <p>New findings on why skeletal muscle stem cells stop dividing and renewing muscle mass during aging points up a unique therapeutic opportunity for managing muscle-wasting conditions in humans, says a new ñ study.</p>
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</div> - <p>Recently derived equations that describe development patterns in modern urban areas appear to work equally well to describe ancient cities settled thousands of years ago, according to a new study led by a researcher at the ñ.</p>
<p class="p1">Applied mathematics student Stephen Kissler has received the highly competitive Gates Cambridge Scholarship for doctoral studies at Cambridge University, funded by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.</p>
<p>As climates change, the lush tropical ecosystems of the Amazon Basin may release more of the greenhouse gas carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than they absorb, according to a new study published Feb. 6 in <em>Nature</em>.</p>- <p>Scientists have known that shy toddlers often have delayed speech, but a new study by the ñ shows that the lag in using words does not mean that the children don’t understand what’s being said.</p>