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Nov 21, 2024 | 
techxplore.com | Nicholas Goda
From family photos stored on the cloud to social media posts cataloging life's pivotal moments, to music, art and stories we create and share online, the digital world is infused with representations of who we are. What happens to that digital legacy after we die, and how do we manage the virtual heirlooms our loved ones leave behind? CU Boulder's new Digital Legacy Clinic has answers.
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Nov 15, 2024 | 
colorado.edu | Lisa Marshall |Nicholas Goda
From family photos stored on the cloud to social media posts cataloging life’s pivotal moments, to music, art and stories we create and share online, the digital world is infused with representations of who we are. What happens to that digital legacy after we die, and how do we manage the virtual heirlooms our loved ones leave behind? CU Boulder’s new Digital Legacy Clinic has answers.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
colorado.edu | Nicholas Goda
“Birthrates are plummeting worldwide. Can governments turn the tide?” “The world is running out of children as global birth rates collapse!” “Could a declining birth rate impact Colorado’s economy?”Amid reports of falling birth rates in the U.S. and beyond, such headlines have stoked concern that as generations of humans shrink, economic development will stall, labor shortages will worsen, and schools will close.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
phys.org | Nicholas Goda
In the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists face a formidable challenge: Real tissues are often both strong and stretchable and vary in shape and size.
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Aug 1, 2024 | 
colorado.edu | Lisa Marshall |Nicholas Goda
Title image: Matt Davidson, a research associate in the Burdick Lab, shows off a 3D-printed material that could be used for a variety of medical applications. Photos by Casey Cass/CU BoulderIn the quest to develop life-like materials to replace and repair human body parts, scientists face a formidable challenge: Real tissues are often both strong and stretchable and vary in shape and size.
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Jul 12, 2024 | 
colorado.edu | Daniel Strain |Nicholas Goda
Banner image: Fireflies dance over a field near Sawhill Ponds in Boulder, Colorado. (Credit: Peleg Lab)Owen Martin steps carefully through the knee-high grass growing up around a long-abandoned railroad track near Sawhill Ponds in Boulder, Colorado. It’s almost pitch black out. The sun set 45 minutes ago, and the only light now comes from the distant buzz of cars on Valmont Road. Get involvedStudents, Colorado residents and more can sign up to help record firefly flashes. Or almost the only light.
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May 21, 2024 | 
colorado.edu | Nicholas Goda
CU Boulder students in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering partnered with the Idea Forge to design, build and test drill-powered vehicles as part of the capstone project in a component design class. The project culminated in a day of friendly competition to test their vehicles in a drag race, a maneuverability course, uphill challenges and an endurance race.
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May 2, 2024 | 
colorado.edu | Nicholas Goda
In the world of sled hockey, the stick is everything. Players have two sticks, each equipped with a blade on one end and a stainless steel pick on the other that they drive into the ice to propel their sled at dizzying speeds up to 20 mph across the ice. Since the sport’s inception in the 1960s as a way for athletes with lower limb amputations or impairments to play ice hockey, players have debated how long those sticks should be. A new CU Boulder study seeks to find out.
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May 2, 2024 | 
colorado.edu | Lisa Marshall |Nicholas Goda
In the world of sled hockey, the stick is everything. Players have two sticks, each equipped with a blade on one end and a stainless steel pick on the other that they drive into the ice to propel their sled at dizzying speeds up to 20 mph across the ice. Since the sport’s inception in the 1960s as a way for athletes with lower limb amputations or impairments to play ice hockey, players have debated how long those sticks should be. A new CU Boulder study seeks to find out.
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Apr 17, 2024 | 
phys.org | Yvaine Ye |Nicholas Goda
Lost your keys? Can't remember where you parked the car? If only you had the memory of a mountain chickadee. These half-ounce birds, with brains slightly larger than a pea, stash tens of thousands of food items like seeds in tree bark, under dead leaves, and inside pinecones across the mountains.
