GRANT AWARD: New materials bring accessibility to topological insulators
Physics Professor Mingzhong Wu received a United States Department of Energy grant to explore the uniquely conductive properties of alpha-Sn thin films.
Category: "Research"
Red or yellow? A simple paper test detects false or substandard antibiotics
Researchers have put chemistry to work on a simple, inexpensive way to identify falsified antibiotics, offering a practical solution to a real problem in the developing world.
What homebody island birds could tell us about adaptation and evolution
Researchers led by biology professor Cameron Ghalambor are launching a study of microgeographic adaptation strategies of island scrub-jays, North America's only island-endemic bird.
Psychology Professor Silvia Canetto’s research on suicide featured by American Psychological Association
Canetto's research was featured in an APA article on the cultural specificity of suicidal behavior.
Keck Foundation grants CSU $1 million to make and measure nanoscale spin waves
The next big advances in computer memory, digital storage and other electronics are going to come from very small places: the spins of individual electrons.
Aircraft campaign to clarify chemistry of wildfire smoke
Throughout late July and August, a multi-agency, multidisciplinary team led by Colorado State University scientists will travel to Boise, Idaho, to conduct 15 to 20 smoke-observation flights.
In responding to predation risk, secondhand experience can be as good as new
Biologists are studying how the experience of stickleback fish can change the course of their development.
Quantum magnets attract Department of Energy funding
CSU physicist Kate Ross studies exotic states in quantum magnets under extreme conditions.
CSU ecologists to track impacts of climate change on grasslands with USDA grant
Grasslands play a large role in Colorado’s agricultural economy, and climate change is having unpredictable effects on them.