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Science at the statehouse: experts will embed at the legislature to help lawmakers craft informed policies

By Bente Birkeland

The Colorado River, left, and the Roaring Fork River

Colorado’s 2025 ‘Water Year’ was abnormally hot and dry

By Ishan Thakore

In Colorado, the loss of Farmers’ Almanac marks the end of an era where local anecdotes and tips kept farms healthy

A red brick building with green roofing

Colorado lab director put on paid leave as problems with health testing continue

Hank Price, left, and Patrick Marcotte, of Solar Dynamics, in front of the parabolic solar collector they built

The Department of Energy said it was saving taxpayers $7.56 billion. The actual amount is much less

By Ishan Thakore

A dragonfly on a burned tree limb

The dragonfly mating game has been upended, new study finds. And that has repercussions up and down the food chain

By Andrea Dukakis

A man in a hat stands over a graft tree in a field.

These Colorado farmers are trying to bring back long-forgotten apple varieties

By Kristen Richard

A concrete building built in the side of a snowy mountain.

5 takeaways on the world’s seed vaults and why Colorado is part of the story

By Hayley Sanchez and Ryan Warner

Members of the IDEX team conduct tests on the door of the Interstellar Dust Experiment near the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. June 3, 2025.

NASA launches CU Boulder-built device designed to collect stardust into space today

By Sandy Battulga

A woman uses an umbrella as a sun shade in August 2013 as she walks on an overpass in Shanghai, which was experiencing its worst heat in 140 years. A new study found that more than 200 heat waves, including the China heatwave, were substantially more likely and more intense because of the activity of major fossil fuel producers.

Scientists link hundreds of severe heat waves to fossil fuel producers’ pollution

By NPR

A group of students sit in in the grass among trees looking up at a teacher

Ute Pass Elementary starts rainbow trout circle of life at Fountain Creek in Fields park

GLENWOOD HOT SPRINGS FILTRATION

Colorado Wonders

Ever wonder how water at the hot springs in Glenwood Springs is filtered?

By Elaine Tassy

A man in a blue lab coat goggles and purple gloves holding a charred item in a lab

When wildfires compromise drinking water, utilities lean on this professor’s advice

By American Public Media Reports

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Government and Politics

Colorado lawmakers abandon special session effort to tweak AI law, will push back start date to June 2026

By Jesse Paul, The Colorado Sun and Taylor Dolven, The Colorado Sun

A man wearing sunglasses and a cowboy hat flips switches on a control panel while sitting in a moon rover prototype cockpit.

What does it take to design a moon rover? Colorado company takes us for a ride

Hallway full of students.

State test score results are in. Here are 6 takeaways

By Jenny Brundin

Two girls stand at a snowy bank of a creek. One girl is using a large liquid syringe to put a sample of water into a test container the other girl is holding.

In Colorado, ‘students are ready to take action around climate, and it’s the rest of us that need to follow along’

By Jenny Brundin

Boating on Blue Mesa Reservoir

Human emissions driving Colorado River ‘megadrought,’ CU Boulder research finds

By Colorado Newsline

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