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<p>A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs.</p>

<p class="p1">The New Horizons spacecraft made a successful flyby of Pluto this morning after a nine-year, 3 billion-mile-journey, sending a thumbs-up signal to Earth tonight and elating the world’s space science community, including CU ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ participants.</p>

<p>When the New Horizons spacecraft encountered Pluto early this morning, several CU-ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ alumni realized a decade full of dreams and no one more so than Beth Cervelli.</p>

<p>After a nine-year journey of 3 billion miles, a piano-sized, power-packed NASA spacecraft has an upcoming date with history that some ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ students, faculty and alumni wouldn’t miss for the world.</p>

<p><span>Southern Californians and writers love to blame the hot, dry Santa Ana winds for tense, ugly moods, and the winds have long been associated with destructive wildfires. Now, NOAA researchers have fo</span><span>und</span><span> that on occasion, the winds have an accomplice with respect to fires, at least: Natural atmospheric events known as stratospheric intrusions, which bring extremely dry air from the upper atmosphere down to the surface, adding to the fire danger effects of the Santa Anas, and exacerbating some air pollution episodes.</span></p>

<p>This summer, middle and high school students are helping build and test 3-D structures that complement and mimic the cutting-edge ‘photo origami’ research conducted at the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½.</p>

<p>It’s been difficult to explain patterns of toxic mercury in some parts of the world, such as why there’s so much of the toxin deposited into ecosystems from the air in the southeastern United States, even upwind of usual sources. A new analysis led by researchers at the ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ shows that one key to understanding mercury’s strange behavior may be the unexpected reactivity of naturally occurring halogen compounds from the ocean.</p>

<p>A ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ scientist unexpectedly discovered two lichen species new to science in the same week while conducting research in ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½ Colorado, near the city’s eastern limits.</p>

<p>If planets had personalities, Mars would be a rock star according to recent preliminary results from NASA's MAVEN spacecraft. Mars sports a "Mohawk" of escaping atmospheric particles at its poles, "wears" a layer of metal particles high in its atmosphere, and lights up with aurora after being smacked by solar storms. MAVEN is also mapping out the escaping atmospheric particles.  The early results are being discussed at a MAVEN-sponsored "new media" workshop held in Berkeley, California, on June 19-21.</p>

After a 47-year journey as steward of CU ÌÇÐÄ´«Ã½â€™s Glenn Miller Archive at the American Music Research Center, Alan Cass will retire as curator on July 1.