Lisa Marshall
Seventy-five percent of incarceration facilities in the state are vulnerable to wildfires, extreme heat, floods or landslides, and many are ill-equipped to handle them, new research suggests.
During a panel at Science Writers 2023, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØresearchers warned the Dobbs decision, which repealed the constitutional right to an abortion, could also limit access to birth control.
A study of century-old bones from an Ohio museum reveals that, contrary to popular belief, the deadly influenza pandemic, like COVID, hit the frail the hardest.
New Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder research reveals how a molecular machine known as PRC2 helps determine which cells become heart cells, versus brain or muscle or skin cells. The findings shed light on how development occurs and could pave the way for novel cancer treatments.
Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder and the National Institute of Standards and Technology are teaming up to help adapt a 90-year-old system for detecting alcohol for a new age of cannabis legalization. A new study suggests it won’t be easy.
A new, sweeping Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder analysis suggests birds of a feather are indeed more likely to flock together, confirming what individual studies have hinted at for decades.
Hormone-blocking drugs can be life-saving for breast cancer survivors, reducing risk of recurrence by as much as 50%. Yet many patients stop taking them early or don’t take them as directed. A new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder study explores why, and what can be done about it.
Federal regulators approved the first over-the-counter oral contraceptive. Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder’s Amanda Stevenson says the impacts could be sweeping. But she cautions that real threats to contraceptive access in the U.S. still exist.
At least 25 U.S. airports now use facial recognition software to determine you are who you say you are, but some fear the artificial intelligence systems will exacerbate discrimination. Morgan Klaus Scheuerman, an AI ethicist, explains why people are concerned.
With the Fourth of July approaching and a thick green carpet of fuel covering much of the West after a rainy spring, Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder fire ecologist Jennifer Balch is calling on people to do their part to prevent the next megafire.