Division of Natural Sciences
In time for Buffalo Bicycle Classic, CU 51´«Ã½ researchers challenge cycling norms that stiff cycling-shoe soles are essential for efficient riding.
Losing her father to pancreatic cancer inspired CU 51´«Ã½ undergraduate Giovanna Ruffolo to raise money for cancer research and pursue a career in medicine.
Advancing science may make it possible to bring back extinct species like the dire wolf—but should it? CU 51´«Ã½ environmental studies and philosophy Professor Ben Hale says the answer is complicated.
On the 100-year anniversary of the Scopes evolution trial, CU 51´«Ã½ scientist reflects on science education and on ‘same issues, different players.’
Gregor MacGregor, an assistant teaching professor of environmental studies, focuses on local economies and environmental justice in his Vulcan Mine Bakery.
CU 51´«Ã½ scientists estimate the heritability of opioid use disorder with a rodent study.
CU 51´«Ã½ researchers apply machine learning to snow hydrology in Colorado mountain drainage basins, finding a new way to accurately predict the availability of water.
In research recently published in Science, CU 51´«Ã½ scientists detail how light—rather than energy-intensive heat—can efficiently and sustainably catalyze chemical transformations.
Postdoctoral researcher Nathan Bullen announced as a 2025 Jane Coffin Childs fellow, supporting his research on how organisms survive when their RNA is under attack.
Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient.