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<p>The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ has received a $3 million federal grant to develop cooling technology that will enable efficient, low-cost supplementary cooling for thermoelectric power plants.</p>

<p>University of Colorado faculty research merited $878.3 million in research awards during the 2014-15 fiscal year, based on preliminary figures, representing a near-record year for the four-campus system.</p>

<p>The ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ was ranked No. 34 in the 2015 Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) released today by the Center for World-Class Universities at Shanghai Jiao Tong University.</p>

<p><span id="docs-internal-guid-f22690d8-1e7b-22a8-f2ac-545c37aa4be2">Stuck oil rigs, grizzly bears and changing weather patterns are just a few of the obstacles Gijs de Boer and his team of researchers encountered on the ground in </span>Oliktok Point, Alaska. De Boer, a scientist with the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences (CIRES), who works in NOAA’s Earth System Research Laboratory, spent the last two weeks deploying the DataHawk 2, a small, lightweight, unmanned aircraft, designed by CU-ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Department of Aerospace Engineering Sciences.</p>

<p>It’s August and that means the hottest show in the night sky -- the Perseid meteor shower -- will make its annual appearance, peaking in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 11 to 14.</p>

<p>An intriguing study involving walking stick insects led by the University of Sheffield in England and the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ shows how natural selection, the engine of evolution, can also impede the formation of new species.</p>

<p>As the business of wearable technology continues to boom, a new University of Colorado technology that allows for the control of electronic devices with one-handed taps, swipes and touches has been optioned to the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ company gaugewear Inc.</p>

<p>The vast majority of people living in areas prone to wildfires know they face risk, but they tend to underestimate that risk compared with wildfire professionals, according to a CU-ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ study.</p>

<p>The health of Colorado’s bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit, but a new study led by researchers at the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ has found that inbreeding—a common hypothesis for a recent decline—likely isn’t to blame.</p>

<p>You don’t think you’re hungry, then a friend mentions how hungry he is or you smell some freshly baked pizza and whoaaa, you suddenly feel <em>really</em> hungry. Or, you’ve had surgery and need a bit of morphine for pain. As soon as you hit that button you feel relief even though the medicine hasn’t even hit your bloodstream.</p>