Science & Technology
- <p>City of Boulder news release</p>
<p>A Gilbert White Memorial Flood Level Marker dedication event will be held at 7 p.m. on Sunday, July 17, in Central Park, just east of the Broadway Bridge on the north side of Boulder Creek.</p> - <p>NIST news release</p>
<p>Showcasing new tools for widespread development of quantum circuits made of mechanical parts, scientists from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è have demonstrated a flexible, broadly usable technique for steadily calming the vibrations of an engineered mechanical object down to the quantum "ground state," the lowest possible energy level.</p> - <p>Colorado business leaders remained confident, although generally less optimistic about the economy looking ahead to the third quarter, according to the most recent quarterly Leeds Business Confidence Index, or LBCI, released today by the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è's Leeds School of Business.</p>
- <p>A ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è research team has developed a new software program allowing neuroscientists to produce single brain images pulled from hundreds of individual studies, trimming weeks and even months from what can be a tedious, time-consuming research process.</p>
- <p>ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è Provost Russell L. Moore today announced the formation of a five-member steering committee and eight campus discussion groups that will take the next key steps toward creating a school or college in the area of information, communication, journalism, media and technology, or ICJMT.</p>
- <p>A novel ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è technique to shrink the size of circuitry used in nanotechnology devices like computer chips and solar cells by zapping a substrate with two separate colors of light beams has been optioned to Heidelberg Instruments headquartered in Heidelberg, Germany.</p>
- <p>Community gardeners eat more vegetables, exercise more, weigh less and feel healthier than nongardeners -- and even home gardeners -- in the Denver-metro area, researchers led by scholars from the University of Colorado have found.</p>
- <p>Samples of icy spray shooting from Saturn's moon Enceladus collected during Cassini spacecraft flybys show the strongest evidence yet for the existence of a large-scale, subterranean saltwater ocean, says a new international study led by the University of Heidelberg and involving the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è.</p>
- <p>A famed Russian director will direct one of four plays to be offered at this summer's Colorado Shakespeare Festival at the ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è, including two bilingual performances.</p>
- <p>The ÀÏ¾ÅÆ·²è will host the 2011 Linguistics Institute from July 7 to Aug. 2, a prestigious gathering of faculty and students from around the world that also will feature free films, workshops and lectures open to the public.</p>