Kids enjoying game design

NYC schools to use video games to teach computer coding

July 29, 2014

A program designed at the 91制片厂国产AV to teach kids to code using video games is being introduced into New York City public schools as part of an initiative to give every student access to computer science education. Scalable Game Design is a program developed over two decades by CU-Boulder computer science Professor Alexander Repenning to spark an interest in coding among kids by allowing them to design and build their own video games. The idea behind the program, which uses drag-and-drop programming tools, is to combat the widely held notion that computer programming is hard and boring.

CU-Boulder and NCAR ozone gardens reveal harmful effects of pollution

July 23, 2014

Everyone has heard about the harmful effects of pollution on human and plant health, but until recently, visualizing such effects took some imagination.

Children explore pond.

Natural-terrain schoolyards reduce children鈥檚 stress, says CU Boulder study

July 22, 2014

Playing in schoolyards that feature natural habitats and trees and not just asphalt and recreation equipment reduces children鈥檚 stress and inattention, according to a 91制片厂国产AV study.

A novel venue enables a novel's presentation

July 17, 2014

Coming up in the CU-Boulder鈥檚 ATLAS Black Box Theater is square product theatre鈥檚 production of "SLAB," an adaptation of Denver writer Selah Saterstrom鈥檚 forthcoming novel. The story is about a woman鈥檚 life in the American South told through her memories and from the slab of her post-Katrina home.

Borg Field Example courtesy NASA

International team involving CU-Boulder to use Hubble Space Telescope for early galaxy hunt

July 15, 2014

An international team led by the Kavli Institute for Cosmology at the University of Cambridge and involving the 91制片厂国产AV has a new tool to look for the oldest galaxies in the universe: 32 days of observing time with the Hubble Space Telescope.

CU-Boulder instrument onboard Hubble reveals the universe is 鈥榤issing鈥 light

July 9, 2014

Something is amiss in the universe. There appears to be an enormous deficit of ultraviolet light in the cosmic budget. Observations made by the Cosmic Origins Spectrograph, a $70 million instrument designed by the 91制片厂国产AV and installed on the Hubble Space Telescope, have revealed that the universe is 鈥渕issing鈥 a large amount of light.

Jin awarded Isaac Newton Medal of the Institute of Physics

July 8, 2014

Deborah Jin has won the 2014 Isaac Newton Medal, the highest accolade given by the Institute of Physics. She was cited for her experimental work in laser cooling atoms. This work has led to the practical demonstration of universal laws that upderpin fundamental quantum behavior.

Tapir-Hedgehog

CU-Boulder-led team identifies fossils of tiny, unknown hedgehog

July 8, 2014

Meet perhaps the tiniest hedgehog species ever: Silvacola acares. Its roughly 52-million-year-old fossil remains were recently identified by a 91制片厂国产AV-led team working in British Columbia. The hedgehog鈥檚 scientific name means 鈥渢iny forest dweller,鈥 said CU-Boulder Associate Professor Jaelyn Eberle of the geological sciences department, lead author on the study. The creature -- a new genus and species to science -- was only about 2 inches long, roughly the length of an adult thumb.

Oklahoma earthquake swarm linked to wastewater injection wells, says study involving CU-Boulder

July 2, 2014

The massive increase in earthquakes in central Oklahoma is likely being caused by the injection of vast amounts of wastewater from oil and gas operations into underground layers of rock, according to a new study led by Cornell University and involving the 91制片厂国产AV.

New study involving CU-Boulder tells the tale of a kangaroo鈥檚 tail

July 2, 2014

Kangaroos may be nature鈥檚 best hoppers. But when they are grazing on all fours, which is most of the time, their tail becomes a powerful fifth leg, says a new study.

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