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It’s August and that means the hottest show in the night sky -- the Perseid meteor shower -- will make its annual appearance, peaking in the pre-dawn hours of Aug. 11 to 14.

An intriguing study involving walking stick insects led by the University of Sheffield in England and the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ shows how natural selection, the engine of evolution, can also impede the formation of new species.

As the business of wearable technology continues to boom, a new University of Colorado technology that allows for the control of electronic devices with one-handed taps, swipes and touches has been optioned to the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ company gaugewear Inc.

The vast majority of people living in areas prone to wildfires know they face risk, but they tend to underestimate that risk compared with wildfire professionals, according to a CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ study.

The health of Colorado’s bighorn sheep population remains as precarious as the steep alpine terrain the animals inhabit, but a new study led by researchers at the ÐßÐßÊÓƵ has found that inbreeding—a common hypothesis for a recent decline—likely isn’t to blame.

You don’t think you’re hungry, then a friend mentions how hungry he is or you smell some freshly baked pizza and whoaaa, you suddenly feel really hungry. Or, you’ve had surgery and need a bit of morphine for pain. As soon as you hit that button you feel relief even though the medicine hasn’t even hit your bloodstream.

A team of researchers has developed a wireless device the width of a human hair that can be implanted in the brain and activated by remote control to deliver drugs.

The New Horizons spacecraft made a successful flyby of Pluto this morning after a nine-year, 3 billion-mile-journey, sending a thumbs-up signal to Earth tonight and elating the world’s space science community, including CU ÐßÐßÊÓƵ participants.

When the New Horizons spacecraft encountered Pluto early this morning, several CU-ÐßÐßÊÓƵ alumni realized a decade full of dreams and no one more so than Beth Cervelli.

After a nine-year journey of 3 billion miles, a piano-sized, power-packed NASA spacecraft has an upcoming date with history that some ÐßÐßÊÓƵ students, faculty and alumni wouldn’t miss for the world.