Children who are deaf or partially deaf but receive diagnosis and interventions by 6 months develop a far greater vocabulary than those for whom treatment is delayed.
A new study by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers found that when San Luis Valley farmers imposed a well-pumping tax on themselves, they slashed use by a third and farmed more sustainably.
A new study by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder pain researcher Pavel Goldstein shows that when an empathetic partner holds the hand of a lover in pain, the couple's heart rates sync and the pain subsides.
On average, a $1.50 increase in a state's minimum wage corresponded to as much as a 50 percent increase in the number of low-wage workers commuting out of state for employment, found a new study.
New research confirms that eyes truly are the window to the soul, with eye-widening or squinting serving as the primary clue observers use to decode someone's emotional state. The findings suggest facial expressions originated as survival mechanisms. Only later were they co-opted as social cues.
Domestic extremists in the U.S. are older, better educated, more affluent, more religious and more likely to be white than street gang members are, according to the first comprehensive study to compare the two groups.
A new study co-authored by Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers has found diesel trucks, buses and cars emit 4.6-million tons more harmful nitrogen-oxide than standards permit. Higher standards and improved emissions tests could save lives, the authors say.
What an infant hears during sleep has an immediate and profound impact on his or her brain activity, potentially shaping language learning later in life, suggests a new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØ study of slumbering babies. The research could result in better options for babies with hearing impairment.
Conventional wisdom has held that tropical forest growth will dramatically slow with increasing levels of rainfall. But Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder researchers have turned that notion on its head with an unprecedented review of data concluding the opposite.
A new Â鶹Ãâ·Ñ°æÏÂÔØBoulder-led study of 40 recently brokenhearted men and women found that a placebo disguised as an emotionally soothing medicine eased their heartbreak and quieted areas of the brain related to rejection.
