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<p>Sea-level rise may not be eating away at Colorado’s borders, but climate change exposes other critical vulnerabilities in the state, according to a new report. Rising temperatures likely will take a toll on cattle and crops, for example, and could more often leave junior water rights holders with little water and few options.</p>

<p>A research team led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ has discovered a mechanism in the brain that is key to making cocaine seem pleasurable, a finding that could lead to a drug treatment for fighting addiction.</p>
<p>The findings build on past research also involving CU-Boulder that found the same mechanism in the brain also interacts with heroin, oxycodone, morphine and other opioid drugs to amplify their addictiveness. The latest study suggests that the mechanism plays a key role in the addictiveness of many abused drugs, possibly including methamphetamine and alcohol.</p>

<p>Up for a romantic Valentine’s Day evening? Then head to the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ’s Fiske Planetarium to <em>Relativity for Lovers – A Valentine’s Day Among the Stars</em>, for music, film and a talk on the genius of Albert Einstein.</p>

<p>NASA’s fallen astronauts, including Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ alumni Ellison Onizuka and Kalpana Chawla, who died in space shuttle accidents 17 years apart, will be remembered both on campus and in a special NASA online tribute this week.</p>

<p class="p1">Arctic sea ice extent plunged precipitously from 2001 to 2007, then barely budged between 2007 and 2013. Even in a warming world, researchers should expect such unusual periods of no change—and rapid change—at the world’s northern reaches, according to a new paper.</p>

<p>When evacuees become separated from their pets while fleeing hurricanes, wildfires or other natural disasters, they’re often difficult to reunite.</p>
<p>Computer scientists at the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ hope to change that with a new online tool designed to leverage the work of crowds to reconnect pets with their human families.</p>

<p>Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ researchers will update NASA officials next week on a revolutionary space telescope concept selected by the agency for study last June that could provide images up to 1,000 times sharper than the Hubble Space Telescope.</p>

<p>Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ Distinguished Professor W. Carl Lineberger was honored today by the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) for his extraordinary scientific achievements.</p>

<p>To accurately forecast wintertime bad air days in Utah’s Uintah Basin, researchers must use real atmospheric measurements to estimate chemical emissions from nearby oil and natural gas fields, a new study in <em>Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics </em>has found.</p>

<p>Using simulation to walk in the shoes of a person who is blind -- such as wearing a blindfold while performing everyday tasks -- has negative effects on people’s perceptions of the visually impaired, according to a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study.</p>