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Tiny robot team could be a gamechanger for safety inspections

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Wed, 21 May 2025 16:58:14 +0000

Tiny robot team could be a gamechanger for safety inspections Daniel Corbin … Wed, 05/21/2025 - 10:58

��ý Boulder Paul M. Rady Mechanical Engineering—��ý Boulder engineers have developed a team of palm-sized robots designed to work together to inspect and monitor dangerous environments like ship ballast tanks and storage vessels. The innovation could transform industrial safety by reducing human risk and enabling faster, more efficient inspections.

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WATCH: Twin ��ý Denver sisters develop tool to help users outsmart phishing scams

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Thu, 01 May 2025 21:26:31 +0000

WATCH: Twin ��ý Denver sisters develop tool to help users outsmart phishing scams Daniel Corbin … Thu, 05/01/2025 - 15:26

Denver7—As phishing scams continue to rise, two graduating sisters from ��ý Denver are turning their capstone project into a tool to help people avoid phishing scams.

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WATCH: ��ý Boulder researchers building shape-shifting robots

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Tue, 29 Apr 2025 21:46:01 +0000

WATCH: ��ý Boulder researchers building shape-shifting robots Daniel Corbin … Tue, 04/29/2025 - 15:46

FOX31—Kaushik Jayaram (��ý Boulder Paul M. Rady Mechanical Engineering) received more than $1 million in grants to build shape-shifting robots the size of an insect.

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Aircrafts of the future: Boosting aerodynamic performance by engineered surface vibrations

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Mon, 24 Mar 2025 19:17:16 +0000

Aircrafts of the future: Boosting aerodynamic performance by engineered surface vibrations Daniel Corbin … Mon, 03/24/2025 - 13:17

��ý Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—As the principal investigator of a $7.5 million, five-year Department of Defense Office of Naval Research (ONR) Multidisciplinary University Research Initiative (MURI), Hussein is leading an effort to reshape the fundamental character of fluid-structure interactions to reduce drag on high-speed aerospace vehicles—the focus of the project.

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New technology turns waste heat into electricity, defies physical limit

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Mon, 17 Feb 2025 19:51:59 +0000

New technology turns waste heat into electricity, defies physical limit Daniel Corbin … Mon, 02/17/2025 - 12:51

��ý Boulder College of Engineering and Applied Science—A team of engineers and material scientists in the Paul M. Rady Department of Mechanical Engineering at ��ý Boulder has developed a new technology to turn thermal radiation into electricity in a way that literally teases the basic law of thermal physics.

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Venture Partners annual report highlights a record year for innovation

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Thu, 09 Jan 2025 13:06:32 +0000

Venture Partners annual report highlights a record year for innovation Daniel Corbin … Thu, 01/09/2025 - 06:06

FY 2023-24 was another tremendous year for innovation and entrepreneurship at the ��ý. University researchers, inventors and creators began working with Venture Partners at ��ý Boulder to advance 144 breakthrough innovations, and 36 ��ý startups were launched through Venture Partners based on campus discoveries.

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A vaccine against weight gain? It’s on the horizon

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Tue, 07 Jan 2025 18:53:52 +0000

A vaccine against weight gain? It’s on the horizon Daniel Corbin … Tue, 01/07/2025 - 11:53

New ��ý Boulder research suggests a surprising tool that could help with weight loss: Exposure to beneficial bacteria. With assistance from Venture Partners, a new startup Kioga will pursue new microbe-based ingredients for preventing weight gain and promoting health.

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Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem raised $1.47 billion in 2023

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Sat, 21 Dec 2024 20:22:37 +0000

Colorado’s life sciences ecosystem raised $1.47 billion in 2023 Daniel Corbin … Sat, 12/21/2024 - 13:22

Colorado Bioscience Association—Colorado's life sciences ecosystem raised $1.47 billion in 2023, demonstrating the resilience of life sciences companies and organizations in the state during a challenging year for U.S. life sciences fundraising.

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Innovative Wind Turbine Control Earns Lucy Pao Prestigious IEEE Award

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Thu, 19 Dec 2024 19:46:42 +0000

Innovative Wind Turbine Control Earns Lucy Pao Prestigious IEEE Award Daniel Corbin … Thu, 12/19/2024 - 12:46

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Institute—Model Predictive Control (MPC) is an established control technique that is popular in the general control systems community. The MPC approach could have significant impacts on how wind turbines are controlled, not only improving their efficiency, but also reducing structural stress on the turbines and extending their lifetimes.

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Building a safer and more affordable nuclear clock

Daniel Corbin Leonard — Wed, 18 Dec 2024 19:43:12 +0000

Building a safer and more affordable nuclear clock Daniel Corbin … Wed, 12/18/2024 - 12:43

EurekAlert!—Reported recently in a new study published in Nature, a team of researchers, led by JILA and NIST Fellow and ��ý Physics professor Jun Ye, in collaboration with Professor Eric Hudson’s team at UCLA’s Department of Physics and Astronomy, have found a way to make nuclear clocks a thousand times less radioactive and more cost-effective, thanks to a method creating thin films of thorium tetrafluoride.

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