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Colorado State University

Founded in 1870 as the Colorado Agricultural College, Colorado State University is now among the nation’s leading research universities. Located in Fort Collins, CSU currently enrolls about 22,650 undergraduate students, 4,100 graduate students and 550 Professional Veterinary Medicine students, and has more than 1,800 faculty members working in eight colleges. More information is available at www.colostate.edu.

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La fleur d’Arum titan semble gigantesque, mais ses fleurs sont en réalité minuscules, on les retrouve à l’intérieur de la chambre florale. John Eisele/Colorado State University

Pourquoi les fleurs du « phallus de titan » ont-elles une odeur si nauséabonde ?

La floraison rare et nauséabonde de l’Arum titan, dont la puanteur évoque celle d’un cadavre en décomposition, révèle une stratégie de pollinisation ingénieuse.
The corpse plant’s bloom appears huge, but its flowers are actually tiny and found in rows inside its floral chamber. John Eisele/Colorado State University

How a corpse plant makes its terrible smell − it has a strategy, and its female flowers do most of the work

When a corpse flower bloomed on campus, atmospheric scientists got to work. What they discovered provides new evidence about the unique pollination strategies of a very unusual flower.
Firefighters work to get a forest fire near Monroe, Utah, under control on July 24, 2025. Hurricane Valley Fire District via AP

Boosting timber harvesting in national forests while cutting public oversight won’t solve America’s wildfire problem

The Trump administration and members of Congress propose cutting environmental reviews and public involvement to boost logging. But data show reviews aren’t the problem.
Ralph Regenvanu, climate change minister of Vanuatu, speaks outside the International Court of Justice in The Hague on July 23, 2025. John Thys/AFP via Getty Images

The World Court just ruled countries can be held liable for climate change damage – what does that mean for the US?

The ruling stems from the harm island nations are suffering as sea level rises, and it opens a door for future claims for reparations. But getting to that point isn’t so simple.
Livestock owners like Mzee Hwenge in Idodi, Tanzania, are turning to chain-link enclosures to protect livestock from carnivores at night.

Livestock and lions make uneasy neighbours: how a fence upgrade helped protect domestic and wild animals in Tanzania

Management and protection of livestock is fundamental for reducing conflict with wildlife.
Plants use light to make energy – and a team of scientists is using the same principle to power chemical reactions. fhm/Moment via Getty Images

Light-powered reactions could make the chemical manufacturing industry more energy-efficient

Chemical manufacturing is an energy-intensive industry. A team of chemists is designing a technique that could power the necessary reactions with sunlight or LEDs.
Your memories are likely stored in ensembles of neurons that fire together. PASIEKA/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

Memories of the good parts of using drugs can keep people hooked − altering the neurons that store them could help treat addiction

Your brain processes the pleasure of everyday behaviors like eating and drinking similarly to the pleasure of using drugs. Disentangling them requires understanding how memories are formed.
La lèpre est généralement causée par Mycobacterium leprae, mais une autre bactérie existe : Mycobacterium lepromatosis. Ajay Kumar Chaurasiya/Wikimedia

Une nouvelle étude montre que la lèpre existait en Amérique bien avant l’arrivée des Européens

Une nouvelle étude démontre que la lèpre infecte les humains en Amérique depuis au moins 1 000 ans, soit plusieurs siècles avant la colonisation européenne.
Many rural food businesses, like Daily Loaf Bakery in Hamburg, Pa., rely on farmers markets to reach customers. Susan L. Angstadt/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images

Young food entrepreneurs are changing the face of rural America

A few important dynamics are making it easier for young people to launch businesses in rural towns – especially food businesses.

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