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Reproductive swell worsens beetle kill

Beetles emerging from trees so early that they are often able to produce two generations a year, rather than only one, as historically has been the case. That finding, believed to be the first confirmation of this reproductive explosion, helps to explain the staggering scope of the current pine-beetle epidemic. Because of the extra annual generation of beetles, there could be up to 60 times as many beetles attacking trees in any given year, their study found.

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After terrorist siege, Beslan hatred fueled peaceful protest

In Beslan, a city in the Russian Republic of North Ossetia, militants seized a school and took 1,200 hostages in 2004. In the end, 331 people died, and nearly 800 others were injured. Given the horrific violence and the fact that the hostage-takers were ethnic foes, observers expected a violent backlash along ethnic lines. But violent retribution was minimal, and victims largely responded with peaceful activism.

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Researchers do double-take on childhood learning

Nate and Zach Huey are identical, 15-year-old twins, who, like most twins, are somewhat dissimilar. But the twins but have much in common. Both like Japanese comic books called Manga. Both read voraciously and have a vocabulary that shows it. And both have been studied since the age of 4 by researchers at the Institute for Behavioral Genetics at the University of Colorado Boulder.

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‘Inside the Greenhouse,’ students hone a message

In February, Clare Boland and her professor, Rebecca Safran of ecology and evolutionary biology, are guest speakers in a new course at the University of Colorado Boulder that aims to explore innovative, creative and effective ways to convey climate-change science and its implications. That course, called “Inside the Greenhouse,” is team-taught by two faculty members: Beth Osnes and Maxwell Boykoff from theatre and dance and environmental studies, respectively.

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Features

Albania comes to Boulder via Arvada

Albania comes to Boulder via Arvada

On May 28, a small crew will pack up the country of Illyria – better known as Albania — load it onto trucks, and haul it north, from Arvada to Boulder. Not the actual nation, it’s true, however, the caravan will transport the elaborate sets created to portray the world of Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night.”

Want to have a longer life? Go to college

Want a longer life? Go to college

In the heat of the battle for the presidency, one candidate questioned the value of a higher education, suggesting that urging young people to go to college was the sign of a “snob.” But, it seems, more education translates directly into longer life.

‘Hip Hop in the Classroom’ aims to ‘feed’ CU

‘Hip Hop in the Classroom’ aims to ‘feed’ CU

Hip-hop music could turn young people on to higher education, perhaps even persuade them to study at the University of Colorado Boulder.

Boys don’t cry, at least as far as they recall

Boys don’t cry...

When former U.S. Rep. Patricia Schroeder tearfully announced in 1987 that she would not seek the nomination for president, many analysts suggested that such a display of emotion made her unqualified. But what if all our tightly held stereotypes about “emotional” females and stoic males are wrong?