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Mars Science Laboratory arrived at its destination Sunday night at...

PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel donated another $1.7 million in January...

CHICAGO — New York Times Co.'s...

Marrakesh, Morocco — From across the ocean, I’m imagining the sun still rises and sets on the Front Range, that daily life goes on...

It took DDT (dichlorodiphenyltrichloroethane), the “atomic bomb of pesticides,” to reduce infestations in this country to a level that a couple of generations have grown up not quite knowing what “Don’t let the bed bugs bite” means...

For decades after the first gold was found near Gold Hill in 1859, Boulder County endured a boom and bust cycle of mining as veins of minerals were discovered, mined and abandoned. The County is built, quite literally, on gold, silver, lead, tungsten and zinc, ...

On Monday, April 28, in a packed Opera House in San Francisco, $1,050,000 was handed out to six of the most impressive environmental activists in the world in the form of the Goldman Environmental Prize...

After nearly 30 years studying how plants use their genes to defend against viruses, Vicki Vance, a professor at the University of South Carolina, doesn’t see genetically modifying plants as a malevolent or arrogantly God-like endeavor...

Colorado Mountain Ranch, the Gold Hill establishment nearly decimated by the Fourmile Canyon fire, is deep in the process of rebuilding lost structures and cleaning up the mess left by the flames. The Walker family, longtime owners of the ranch, are now asking the ...

Say what you will about his policies and...

Boulder Weekly’s cover story “Why are we so hated?” published in the immediate wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, garnered more mail than any other single story the paper had run up to that time. Letters came from across the United States, from Europe and...

Yolanda Crist sits on the curb beside her two-door Hyundai as the sunset gilds nearby treetops. Between drags on a cigarette she says, “I...