Health
In her honors thesis, recent graduate Amber Duffy describes how loneliness influences a person’s ability to respond to stress.
There’s a lot of research out there on screen time and sleep—read the consensus from 16 leading sleep experts, who have just published an exhaustive scientific review.
In a new CU study, researchers found body scanning and something called urge surfing appear to help people cut down how much alcohol they drink.
Things like lockdowns, school closures and masking worked surprisingly well to contain infections long enough for a vaccine to be developed, new research shows. But with better planning, the authors say, the U.S. could manage future pandemics with less economic pain.
From developing new therapies to help patients cope with anxiety to discovering new ways to treat resistant breast cancer and new environmentally friendly methods for producing chemotherapy drugs, CU Boulder researchers are pushing boundaries in cancer research.
Earth scientists have long turned to minute differences in hydrogen atoms to explore the ancient history of our planet. A new study suggests that these same tiny atoms could one day lead to new ways to track the growth of cancer.
CU Boulder's Youth Violence Prevention Center has enlisted the help of dozens of Denver youth to explore what's driving the nation's youth violence crisis and take concrete steps to confront it. This week, for Youth Violence Prevention Week, they'll screen a movie, host a conference and more.
In lab experiments, engineers at CU Boulder asked groups of younger and older adults to complete a deceptively simple task: to reach for a target on a computer screen. The group's findings could one day help doctors diagnose a range of illnesses, from Parkinson's disease to mental health conditions like depression.
With new medications extending the lives of advanced cancer patients, many live for years in the face of radical uncertainty. A new CU Boulder-born therapy has been shown to reduce trauma, depression, anxiety and fear.
Four years after the U.S. began to slowly emerge from mandatory COVID-19 lockdowns, a study of 7,000 aging adults suggests that for many, life has never been the same.