Science & Technology
Daniel Szafir's work may pave the way for fleets of automated assistants that will one day help people carry out a range of tasks—from fighting wildfires to building craft projects in the home.
Researchers have uncovered the statistical rules that govern how gigantic colonies of fire ants form bridges, ladders and floating rafts.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder engineers have successfully scaled up an innovative water-cooling system capable of providing continuous day-and-night radiative cooling for structures.
A new 3D printing technique allows for localized control of an object's firmness, opening up new biomedical avenues that could one day include artificial arteries and organ tissue.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Lucy Pao and the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL) are testing whether turbine blades inspired by palm trees can give wind power an edge.
The race is on: Researchers from Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØDenver and Scientific Systems Company Inc. have partnered to design drones that can explore underground environments such as subway tunnels, mines and caves.
Researchers at Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder report that they may have solved a geophysical mystery, pinning down the likely cause of a phenomenon that resembles a wrench in the engine of the planet.Â
With funding from the National Science Foundation, Juliet Gopinath will work to bring together engineers and physicists to design better tools for quantum computing.
New research by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder's Orit Peleg explores how clumps of hundreds of bees stay stable under strain.
A square peg in a round hole? No problem. New material developed by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder engineers can transform into complex, pre-programmed shapes via light and temperature stimuli, and back again.