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<p>A team of scientists including a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ professor used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to make the most detailed global map yet of the glow from a giant, oddball planet orbiting another star, an object twice as massive as Jupiter and hot enough to melt steel.</p>

<p>Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ Associate Professor Amy Palmer of the BioFrontiers Institute was awarded a coveted Director’s Pioneer Award from the National Institutes of Health this week, a five-year, $3.7 million grant made to select researchers showing exceptional creativity in solving pressing biomedical and behavioral research problems.</p>

<p>NASA has awarded a team led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ more than $7 million to study aspects of the origins, evolution, distribution and future of life in the universe.</p>

<p><span>A novel dental restorative material that should make life easier for dental care experts and their patients, which is based on technology developed by a team of Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ engineers, was unveiled Oct. 1 by the 3M Company.</span></p>

<p>Soil microbes that thrive in the deserts, rainforests, prairies and forests of the world can also be found living beneath New York City’s Central Park, according to a surprising new study led by Colorado State University and the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ.</p>
<p>The research team analyzed 596 soil samples collected from across Central Park’s 843 acres and discovered a stunning diversity of below-ground life, most of which had never been documented before.</p>

<p>The perception that Colorado’s Front Range wildfires are becoming increasingly severe does not hold much water scientifically, according to a massive new study led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ and Humboldt State University in Arcata, Calif.</p>

<p>A new study led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ found that different strategies used by states to reduce power plant emissions -- direct ones such as emission caps and indirect ones like encouraging renewable energy -- are both effective. The study is the first analysis of its kind.</p>

<p>A Kurdish delegation will visit the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ campus Sept. 29 and 30 to deliver a public talk on the political situation in the Kurdistan region of Iraq and receive an electronic copy of important documents captured by Kurdish rebels in 1991 but removed from Iraq for safekeeping and analysis.</p>

<p class="p1">The spacecraft for a NASA mission to probe the climate history of Mars led by the Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ slid seamlessly into orbit at about 8:24 p.m. MDT on Sunday, Sept. 21, the last major hurdle of the 10-month, 442-million-mile journey.</p>

<p>The gradual fall cooling on Colorado’s Front Range this September is helping to set up what could well be a prime-time show of gold, yellow and red leaves in the region’s aspen forests, according to a Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ plant ecologist.</p>