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- Nicotinamide riboside effects on aging similar to caloric restriction https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/03/28/pill-staves-aging-its-horizon 82 comments
- Suicide rates in the US are on the rise: New study offers surprising reasons why https://www.colorado.edu/today/2024/02/15/suicide-rates-us-are-rise-new-study-offers-surprising-reasons-why 39 comments economy
- Exposure to air pollution in the first six months of life impacts a child’s inner world of gut bacteria, or microbiome, in ways that could increase risk of allergies, obesity and diabetes, and even influence brain development https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/09/01/how-pollution-changes-babys-gut-and-why-it-matters 261 comments science
- Study on nearly 90,000 samples of marijuana found that commercial labels on weed tell consumers little about what’s in their product, could be confusing or misleading and “do not consistently align with the observed chemical diversity” of the product https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/05/19/whats-your-weed-label-doesnt-tell-you-much-study-suggests 686 comments science
- World’s fastest blade runner gets no competitive advantage from prostheses https://www.colorado.edu/today/2022/01/05/worlds-fastest-blade-runner-gets-no-competitive-advantage-prostheses-study-shows 7 comments science
- Rethinking what causes pain and how great of a threat it is can provide chronic pain patients with lasting relief and alter brain networks associated with pain processing, according to new research https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/09/29/how-therapy-not-pills-can-nix-chronic-pain-and-change-brain 32 comments science
- Scientists have found subjects who read about an enraged politician from their own party were more likely to report feeling mad themselves than people who didn't. Results are among the first to show what many Americans have long known—that political anger can be a powerful force. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/07/16/angry-politicians-make-angry-voters-new-study-finds 12 comments science
- 5-minute breathing workout lowers blood pressure for aging adults fending off cardiovascular disease https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/06/29/5-minute-breathing-workout-lowers-blood-pressure-much-exercise-drugs 15 comments science
- Waking up just one hour earlier could reduce a person's risk of major depression by 23%. The study of 840,000 people, represents some of the strongest evidence yet that chronotype--a person's propensity to sleep at a certain time --influences depression risk. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/05/27/want-reduce-your-depression-risk-wake-hour-earlier 184 comments science
- Scientists peer inside an asteroid: New findings from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission suggest that the interior of the asteroid Bennu could be weaker and less dense than its outer layers—like a crème-filled chocolate egg flying though space. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/10/08/scientists-peer-inside-asteroid 3 comments space
- Breathing dirty air takes a heavy toll on gut bacteria, boosting risk of obesity, diabetes, gastrointestinal disorders and other chronic illnesses. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/03/11/can-brown-cloud-make-you-gain-weight 15 comments science
- Fatal car accidents in the United States spike by 6% during the workweek following the “spring forward” to daylight saving time, resulting in about 28 additional deaths each year, according to new University of Colorado Boulder research. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/01/30/spring-forward-daylight-saving-time-brings-surge-deadly-crashes 1541 comments science
- U.S. birth weights have fallen significantly in recent decades due to soaring rates of cesarean deliveries, which have shortened the average pregnancy from 40 to 39 weeks, new study shows. This can have public health consequences, since low birth weight has been linked to poorer long-term health. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/01/29/us-birth-weights-drop-due-rise-cesarean-births-inductions 16 comments science
- A nuclear war between India and Pakistan could, over the span of less than a week, kill 50-125 million people -- more than the death toll during all six years of World War II, & threaten global starvation, according to new research. https://www.colorado.edu/today/nuclear-war 3 comments science
- Onset of Giant Planet Migration before 4480 Million Years Ago - A new timeline of Earth’s cataclysmic past suggests the emergence of life on the early Hadean Earth could endure late accretion since at least about 4.4 billion years ago. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/08/12/new-timeline-earths-cataclysmic-past 5 comments science
- Artificial gravity breaks free from science fiction by incremental, personalized protocol to address the cross-coupled Coriolis illusion https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/07/02/artificial-gravity-breaks-free-science-fiction 4 comments science
- Scientists designed artificial gravity system that might fit within a room of future space stations and even moon bases. Astronauts could crawl into these rooms for just a few hours a day to get their daily doses of gravity, similar to spa treatments, but for the effects of weightlessness. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/07/02/artificial-gravity-breaks-free-science-fiction 621 comments space
- When more women involved in decisions of land management, the group conserves more, particularly when offered financial incentives to do so. Study shows how gender quotas for local governing bodies could reduce global deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions while also curbing local inequalities https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/03/21/when-more-women-are-decision-makers-environment-wins 582 comments science
- A landscape unseen in over 40,000 years: Glacial retreat in the Canadian Arctic has uncovered landscapes that haven’t been ice-free in more than 40,000 years and the region may be experiencing its warmest century in 115,000 years https://www.colorado.edu/today/2019/01/25/landscape-unseen-over-40000-years 278 comments worldnews
- Risk-taking, antisocial teens 5 times more likely to die young. This research makes it clear that youth identified with conduct problems are at extreme risk for premature mortality, beyond that which can be explained by substance use problem https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/08/09/risk-taking-antisocial-teens-5-times-more-likely-die-young 5 comments science
- Collective gravity, not Planet Nine, may explain the orbits of 'detached objects' https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/06/04/collective-gravity 6 comments space
- Rats injected with a beneficial bacterium were exposed to a stressor, and the immunized animals showed lower levels of a stress-induced protein. The findings, if replicated in clinical trials, could lead to new probiotic-based immunizations to protect people against PTSD, anxiety or depression. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/06/06/immunization-stress-horizon 7 comments science
- Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at lower risk of mental illness than pet-free city dwellers, according to new research. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/04/30/how-city-living-could-increase-risk-mental-illness 13 comments worldnews
- Children raised in a rural environment, surrounded by animals and bacteria-laden dust, grow up to have more stress-resilient immune systems and might be at lower risk of mental illness than pet-free city dwellers, according to new research. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/04/30/how-city-living-could-increase-risk-mental-illness 960 comments science
- A range of less than one degree Fahrenheit (or half a degree Celsius) of climate warming over the next century could make all the difference when it comes to the probability of future ice-free summers in the Arctic. https://www.colorado.edu/today/2018/04/02/ice-free-arctic-summers-could-hinge-small-climate-warming-range 3 comments science
- Domestic extremists tend to be much older, better educated, more affluent, more religious, and are more likely to be white than street gang members, according to a new study that systematically compares the groups for the first time. http://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/05/18/domestic-terrorists-gang-members-have-little-common-study-shows 234 comments science
- [1993] Bruno Latour - We Have Never Been Modern, Chapters 1-2 http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_6402_f10/latour%20modern%201-2.pdf 3 comments philosophy
- When love hurts, a placebo can help http://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/04/24/when-love-hurts-placebo-can-help 3 comments science
- Humans, not climate change, wiped out Australian megafauna http://www.colorado.edu/today/2017/01/20/humans-not-climate-change-wiped-out-australian-megafauna 31 comments science
- Light-activated nanoparticles prove effective against antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” http://www.colorado.edu/today/2016/01/18/light-activated-nanoparticles-prove-effective-against-antibiotic-resistant-superbugs 47 comments science
- Stratfor's Geopolitics of Russia [PDF] http://www.colorado.edu/geography/class_homepages/geog_4892_sum10/geopoliticsofrussia_stratfor.pdf 18 comments geopolitics
- Study shows thawing permafrost quickly turns into CO2 http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/10/26/study-shows-thawing-permafrost-quickly-turns-co2-climate-concern 9 comments science
- New space telescope concept, "The Aragoscope," could image objects at far higher resolution than Hubble http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2015/01/23/new-space-telescope-concept-could-image-objects-far-higher-resolution 3 comments science
- Facial structure predicts goals, fouls among World Cup soccer players http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/11/11/facial-structure-predicts-goals-fouls-among-world-cup-soccer-players 11 comments science
- Neanderthals were not inferior to modern humans, says study: The widely held notion that Neanderthals were dimwitted and that their inferior intelligence allowed them to be driven to extinction by the much brighter ancestors of modern humans is not supported by scientific evidence, researchers say http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2014/04/30/neanderthals-were-not-inferior-modern-humans-says-cu-boulder-study 58 comments science
- CU-Boulder team develops new water splitting technique that could produce hydrogen fuel http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2013/08/01/cu-boulder-team-develops-new-water-splitting-technique-could-produce 5 comments science
- Parents Tend to Share More Bacteria With Family Dogs Than Children http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2013/04/17/new-cu-boulder-study-looks-microbial-differences-between-parents-kids-and 3 comments science
- Happiness is positively correlated with having more sex, but negatively correlated with one's peers having more sex http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2013/04/15/sex-happiness-hinges-keeping-joneses-cu-boulder-study-finds 551 comments science
- Univ of Colorado-Boulder, which has correctly predicted every U.S. President since 1980, makes their prediction for 2012. http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/08/22/analysis-election-factors-points-romney-win-university-colorado-study-says 31 comments politics
- U. Colorado paying students $50 to nark out pot smokers at gathering on 4/20 http://www.colorado.edu/police/420_photo_album/index.htm 23 comments reddit.com