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Scientists discover four new stars right next to Earth: White dwarfs were hiding behind brighter red dwarfs; discovery made using Hubble's ultraviolet camera

Astronomers from the University of Warwick and University of Colorado Boulder have found four white dwarf stars hiding in binary systems within 65 light-years of Earth. The stars had gone undetected because brighter red dwarf companions were drowning out their light. One of the newly confirmed stars is now the…

The Economic Times

What Kalpana Chawla Taught Us About Resilience, Ambition, and the Courage to Begin Again

Kalpana Chawla grew up in Karnal, a town in Haryana where the roads were dusty and the sky was enormous, and she looked at that sky the way most people look at a door. Not with wonder. With intention. She didn't become an astronaut because she was fearless. She became…

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White House appoints Harvard astronomer Avi Loeb to lead new UFO study group

Harvard astrophysicist Avi Loeb has been appointed as the head of a new White House group to study UFOs, or unidentified anomalous phenomena, as they're now known.

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Scientists develop a single injection that can reverse chronic osteoarthritis in just four weeks

Single injection for osteoarthritis: A research team from the University of Colorado Boulder, CU Anschutz, and Colorado State University has developed two new therapies that showed reversal of osteoarthritis in animal studies within four to eight weeks. The project, funded under a federal programme with up to $33.5 million, has…

The Economic Times

Bioluminescent algae’s blue light harnessed to make 3D-printed shapes

Scientists suggest algae could be embedded within biosensors that glow when toxins detected in the environment

The Guardian - UK

ICE's immigration crackdown isn't helping American jobs. It's actively killing them

“If anything, job opportunities for U.S.-born workers are going down as a result,” the University of Colorado Boulder’s Chloe East said.

Fortune

'Major disruption in Neanderthal history': 65,000 years ago, all Neanderthals in Europe died out except for one lineage

The last Neanderthals to survive in Europe came from a single lineage that survived the worst period of the ice age, ancient DNA reveals.

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Avalanches are becoming more frequent. Here’s how to survive one

There are a few things you can do to increase your chances of survival

The Independent UK

Student Stripped of Funding Over Using Microwave for 'Pungent' Indian Food Wins £148K Discrimination Case

Two Indian PhD students at the University of Colorado Boulder have secured a £148,000 ($200,000) civil rights settlement after alleging discrimination and retaliation following a complaint about heating Indian food in a campus microwave.

International Business Times UK

Indian students receive $200,000 payout after university staff member complains about ‘pungent’ food

IN FOCUS: What started as a dispute over kitchen etiquette spiralled into disciplinary action against an Indian student couple, loss of funding, and a legal battle that ended in a sizeable settlement. Shahana Yasmin reports

The Independent UK

Scientists are getting our robotic explorers ready to help send humans to Mars

"It's really not a question of robotic exploration or human exploration," Ehlmann said. "It is an 'and' — it's robotic and human exploration and how we do these best together."

Space

Why many mental health conditions may be more alike than we thought

The findings of this study could eventually improve how mental health conditions are diagnosed and treated, especially for people who live with more than one diagnosis.

Euronews

MAVEN Captures Shocking Deuterium Ratios: What Comet 3I/ATLAS Means For Earth

NASA's MRO, MAVEN, and Perseverance capture rare views of interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS.

International Business Times UK

A database could help revive the Arapaho language before its last speakers are gone

I was hired at the University of Colorado Boulder in 1995 as a language professor. I relocated from Hawaii, where I had learned the Hawaiian language.

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Scientists 'reawaken' ancient microbes from permafrost — and discover they start churning out CO2 soon after

Researchers incubated permafrost samples from Alaska at different temperatures and found that microbes from the last ice age can reactivate and resume breaking down carbon.

The Conversation

Emergency alerts may not reach those who need them most in Colorado

Many Coloradans may never get an alert that could save their life during a disaster.

LiveScience

Scientists create first-ever visible time crystals using light — and they could one day appear on $100 bills

The visible patterns produced by the time crystals could be used for data storage and anti-counterfeiting designs.

The Conversation

How slashing university research grants impacts Colorado’s economy and national innovation – a CU Boulder administrator explains

The Trump administration has been freezing or reducing federal grants to universities across the country.

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Golden Dome: An aerospace engineer explains the proposed US-wide missile defense system

In May 2025, President Donald Trump announced a plan to build a missile defense system, called the Golden Dome. How exactly does it work?

The Conversation

Managing forests and other ecosystems under rising threats requires thinking across wide-ranging scenarios

In Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks in California, trees that have persisted through rain and shine for thousands of years are now facing multiple threats triggered by a changing climate.

The Independent UK

Trump science cuts roil university labs, targeting bird feeder research, AI literacy work and more

Hundreds of university researchers in the U.S. have had their National Science Foundation funding abruptly canceled to comply with President Donald Trump’s directive to end support of research on diversity, equity and inclusion, as well as the study of misinformation

The Conversation

Schools and communities can help children bounce back after distressing disasters like the LA wildfires

The 2025 Los Angeles wildfires reduced more than 15,000 structures to ash in a matter of days. Among the devastation were 11 public and private schools and 30 child care facilities. In all, the fires disrupted the education and daily lives of over 700,000 students.

Space

How do black holes 'leak' energy? Scientists have a new spin on the answer

Scientists have discovered more about the process that causes black holes to "leak" energy to their surroundings, finding the faster they spin, the more energy is extracted.

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Breakthrough May Mean Longer-lasting Electric Vehicle Batteries

The reason batteries lose capacity over time has been discovered by scientists.

Inverse

Physicists Are Closer Than Ever to Creating A Nuclear Clock That Could Change Physics Forever

The subatomic particles in the nucleus of thorium-229, a radioactive isotope of the metal thorium, could revolutionize timekeeping.

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