Mengli Zhang, research assistant professor and director of the Center for Geophysics, Energy and Minerals, said more than cost and high resolution, the key is smaller and faster sensors that can get enough information before a borehole collapses.

Mines has purchased an over 50,000-square-foot facility in Golden to serve as the home of a new innovation hub aimed at strengthening domestic critical minerals supply chains.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authors this article examining how the Iran War has impacted fertilizer supplies.

Article notes that Mines has top-ranked programs in geology, mining engineering, petroleum engineering, materials science and chemical engineering.

Shiling Pei, professor of civil and environmental engineering, says that a timber building designed with a "rocking wall" made out of timber performed well when tested on a large shake table.

Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center for Space Resources, explains how a Mines lab simulates a lunar landscape.

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, co-authored this article focused on how yttrium is needed for helping cool the giant natural gas turbines that power many data centers.

Lia Franklin, acting director of the McNeil Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation, discusses the Innov8x Biomass Challenge where teams competed to learn who had the best plan for dealing with the bushes and trees removed to reduce wildfire risk.

Angel Abbud-Madrid, director of the Center for Space Resources, says that cislunar travel (travel between the earth and moon) will become more common once we figure out how to mine lunar ice and turn it into rocket fuel.

Hannah Rodda, a freshmen in mechanical engineering, won the 2026 Innov8x Biomass Challenge with her idea to use pine needles to make conductive ink.

A Payne Institute for Public Policy article (The Future of AI Runs Through Indian Country) is cited. The piece argues that Indian Country could benefit from allowing the construction of data centers on native lands.

Angel Abbud-Madrid, professor of practice in mechanical engineering and director of the Center for Space Resources, recalls the 1961 space launch when astronaut Alan Shepard became the first American to travel into space.