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<p>A sounding rocket launching from NASA Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia Aug. 23 will be carrying two �Ͼ�Ʒ�� student-built payloads and a pair of other payloads developed by students from Virginia Tech, Baylor University and the University of Puerto Rico.</p>

<p>The �Ͼ�Ʒ�� will play a key role in a NASA mission launching this week to study how space weather affects Earth two giant radiation belts known to be hazardous to satellites, astronauts and electronics systems on Earth.</p>

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<p>University of Adelaide news release</p>
<p>In a major breakthrough, an international team of scientists from the University of Adelaide and �Ͼ�Ʒ�� has proven that addiction to morphine and heroin can be blocked, while at the same time increasing pain relief.</p>
<p>The team has discovered the key mechanism in the body immune system that amplifies addiction to opioid drugs. Laboratory studies involving rats have shown that the drug (+)-naloxone will selectively block the immune-addiction response.</p>

<p>CU System news release</p>
<p>DENVER – Work by University of Colorado faculty garnered $815.3 million in sponsored research funding in fiscal year 2011-12, a rise of nearly $22 million over the previous fiscal year.</p>
<p>The preliminary figures indicate one of the highest research totals in CU history; the only higher total came in fiscal year 2009-10, when one-time federal stimulus dollars contributed to a final tally of $884.1 million. Last year total was $793.5 million.</p>

<p>A tiny satellite designed, built and tested by �Ͼ�Ʒ�� students to study solar flares may launch as early as Aug. 14 from Vandenberg Air Force Base near Lompoc, Calif.</p>

<p>Despite sharp increases in carbon dioxide emissions by humans in recent decades that are warming the planet, Earth vegetation and oceans continue to soak up about half of them, according to a surprising new study led by the �Ͼ�Ʒ��.</p>

<p>The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new international study led by CU-Boulder researcher Paola Villa, a curator at the University of Colorado Museum of Natural History .</p>

<p>The Later Stone Age emerged in South Africa more than 20,000 years earlier than previously believed -- about the same time humans were migrating from Africa to the European continent, says a new international study led by the �Ͼ�Ʒ��.</p>

<p><strong>Michael Radelet</strong>, professor of sociology, is an expert on the use of the death penalty in Colorado and the United States. He has documented all of Colorado executions and notes that Colorado abolished the penalty between 1897 and 1901, came within one vote of abolishing it again in 2009 and has executed only one person since 1967. “We've always debated the death penalty in Colorado, and the general thrust of our history is in the direction of abolition,” he said.</p>

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<p><strong>Kenneth Foote</strong>, professor of geography, studies how events of violence and tragedy are memorialized and remembered. He has visited hundreds of sites that have been scarred by incidents of violence or tragedy in the United States and abroad, and is the author of the book “Shadowed Ground: America Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy.” He can be reached at <a href="mailto:kfoote@colorado.edu">kfoote@colorado.edu</a> or 303-641-3346.</p>