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<p>The �Ǹ�Թ� will host a free public lecture this month illuminating the lessons learned from the April 2010 Deepwater Horizon explosion that killed 11 workers and resulted in the largest accidental oil spill in U.S. history.</p>
<p>Called “What Happened at Deepwater Horizon?” the event will be presented Jan. 26 from 6:30 to 9 p.m. in the Mathematics Building auditorium, room 100.</p>

<p>While the majority of dating websites do a good job of managing the privacy of their users, a class research project at the �Ǹ�Թ�’s Leeds School of Business found that 21 of 90 dating websites the class examined did not properly remove location data from pictures uploaded by their users.</p>

<p>The Rio Grande Rift, a thinning and stretching of Earth’s surface that extends from Colorado’s central Rocky Mountains to Mexico, is not dead but geologically alive and active, according to a new study involving scientists from the �Ǹ�Թ�’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences.  </p>

<p>An astronomy team led by the �Ǹ�Թ� using NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope has zeroed in on <a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/01/10/cu-led-study-pinpoints-farthest-developing-galaxy-cluster-ever-found">a wild intergalactic construction project</a> -- a cluster of early galaxies just starting to assemble only 600 million years after the Big Bang.</p>

<p>A team of researchers led by the �Ǹ�Թ� has used NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope to uncover a cluster of galaxies in the initial stages of construction -- the most distant such grouping ever observed in the early universe.</p>
<p>In a random sky survey made in near-infrared light, Hubble spied five small galaxies clustered together 13.1 billion light-years away. They are among the brightest galaxies at that epoch and very young, living just 600 million years after the universe’s birth in the Big Bang. One light-year is about 6 trillion miles.</p>

<p>Summertime hail could all but disappear from the eastern flank of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains by 2070, says a new study by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the �Ǹ�Թ�’s Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences and the National Center for Atmospheric Research.</p>

<p>If you are college-age or younger, you might just live to see the day when hail disappears from the eastern flanks of Colorado’s Rocky Mountains.</p>
<p>A new modeling study involving the Cooperative Institute for Research in Environmental Sciences, a joint institute of the �Ǹ�Թ� and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, indicates hail will likely cease to fall in those locales by the year 2070, a result of rising temperatures.</p>

<p>A team of �Ǹ�Թ� engineers will travel to Haiti this month to support the growth of green energy on the two-year anniversary of the country’s devastating earthquake. </p>
<p>Engineering professors Alan Mickelson and Mike Hannigan and graduate student Matt Hulse will be in Haiti Jan. 8-16 to collaborate with the Neges Foundation school at Leogane to create a vocational training program on the installation, operation and maintenance of renewable energy systems.   </p>

<p>How did insects get their hearing? A new study of 50-million-year-old cricket and katydid fossils sporting some of the best preserved fossil insect ears described to date are helping to trace the evolution of the insect ear.</p>
<p>According to paleontologist Dena Smith of the �Ǹ�Թ�'s Museum of Natural History and University of Illinois Professor Roy Plotnick, who collaborated on the new study at the National Evolutionary Synthesis Center, or NESCent, in Durham, N.C., insects hear with help from some very unusual ears.</p>

<p>A new study led by the �Ǹ�Թ� could be a wake-up call for parents of toddlers: Daytime naps for your kids may be more important than you think.</p>