You've probably seen bryozoans at the beach without even knowing it—some look like floating balls of mucus, while others resemble a bit of crust growing over docks and other hard surfaces. According to a new study, these strange organisms may reveal how colony-forming animals evolved a system for divvying up jobs millions of years ago.
The evidence was found in a pebbly sandstone, Tava, encapsulated within the granite that formed Colorado’s Pikes Peak around 700 million years ago. Read from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä experts Rebecca Flowers and Liam Courtney-Davies on The Conversation.
A series of rocks hiding around Colorado's Rocky Mountains hold clues to a frigid period in Earth's past when glaciers several miles thick may have covered the entire planet.
The Data Systems group collaborates to create user-friendly applications designed to make space weather data accessible to all, empowering users to explore the latest space weather developments from their browsers.
In interviews with residents and builders after disasters from Hawaii to Colorado to Puerto Rico, experts found people often overestimated the cost of building back better. Read from ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder's Abbie Liel and University of Notre Dame's Susan Ostermann on The Conversation.
A new ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder study paints a grim picture of how blistering heat, wildfire smoke and other extreme weather events impact Colorado’s jail and prison population.
Following Donald Trump’s victory this week, ¶¶ÒõÂÃÐÐÉä Boulder’s Janet Donavan breaks down how the president-elect beat the polls yet again—and how the nation can move forward after an especially divisive election.
Colorado Law Professor Doug Spencer, an expert in election and constitutional law, explains the impact of a quickly called race, why a peaceful transfer of power is so important and what the early days of Trump’s second presidency may look like.
