Black hole in deep space

How black holes switched from creating to quenching stars

Feb. 9, 2024

Mitchell Begelman and a team of other astronomers, including Joe Silk, a professor at Johns Hopkins University, published their findings in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, suggesting that new theories of galactic creation are needed to explain the existence of these huge black holes.

A colorful Chinese dragon sculpture with a bright blue sky in the background.

Lunar New Year begins auspicious, perhaps fertile, Year of the Dragon

Feb. 8, 2024

CU Boulder Asian languages faculty members Yingjie Li and Yu Zhang reflect on what some consider the luckiest year in the Chinese zodiac.

Taylor Swift cheering in a stadium box wearing a Kansas City Chiefs sweatshirt

‘No girls allowed’: What the Taylor Swift backlash says about football and politics

Feb. 8, 2024

This year, the pop megastar has become a regular at Kansas City Chiefs NFL games, but not everyone is happy about seeing her on screen. CU Boulder’s Jamie Skerski gives her take on why Swift is facing such a backlash, and how it reflects a boys-only culture in the world of football.

The dark, far side of the moon

Lunar science is entering a new phase

Feb. 8, 2024

For the first time since 1972, NASA is putting science experiments on the moon in 2024—landers that will study solar wind and peer into the universe’s dark ages. Read from CU expert Jack Burns on The Conversation.

Boulder view

From hydrogen power and hypersonics to gene editing: CU faculty to share breakthroughs at AAAS conference

Feb. 8, 2024

Hundreds of scientists and journalists will flock to the Colorado Convention Center Feb. 15 to 17 to hear from the world’s leading scientists at the American association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) annual meeting.

Analog TV in a retro 1970s style living room

For legacy media studios, streaming has dried up revenue. Can they change the channel?

Feb. 7, 2024

An expert from the College of Media, Communication and Information notes that, in its ongoing conquest of legacy media studios, the tech industry has made use of a very old playbook.

Illustration of lunar lander on the moon's surface

Radio telescope with CU Boulder ties lands at the moon’s South Pole

Feb. 6, 2024

In February, a lander named Odysseus designed by the company Intuitive Machines is scheduled to touch down on the moon, returning U.S. science to the lunar surface for the first time in more than 50 years. Astrophysicists from CU Boulder will be along for the ride.

Two football players smash into each other on the field

New kinds of padding could make football gear, bike helmets safer than ever

Feb. 5, 2024

Researchers wrote new computer algorithms to redesign the interiors of padding down to the scale of a millimeter or less. The result: New kinds of cushions that can absorb as much as 25% more force than current state-of-the-art technologies.

a still from the original Scarface film

Say hello to my little friend, the gangster movie

Feb. 2, 2024

At what would have been Al Capone’s 125th birthday, CU Boulder cinema researcher Tiel Lundy explains the enduring popularity of gangsters in film and the American imagination.

an illustration of atomic dipoles on a lattice

Observing a new-clock systematic shift

Feb. 2, 2024

In a new study, physics professor Jun Ye and his research team have taken a significant step in understanding the intricate and collective light-atom interactions within atomic clocks, the most precise clocks in the universe.

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