Bobby White and Josh Trujillo were backcountry skiing the popular Berthoud Pass area in Colorado when they saw a cloud of snow erupt -- a sign of an avalanche occurring -- at least a thousand feet away.

Professor Morgan Bazilian, a member of the Climate Change Advisory Council, said the fire was unlike anything seen before in the state.

“Simply knowing the existence of a mineral deposit that’s attractive geologically does not guarantee commercial viability,” said professor Rod Eggert, deputy director of the Critical Materials Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.

It’s the end of the fall semester at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, and all the makings of a classic science fair are on campus. For their final projects, groups of seniors were asked to figure out solutions to problems that included making ....

Morgan Bazilian, director of the Payne Institute for Public Policy, and senior fellow Brad Handler wrote this opinion piece on the causes of tight supply and high energy prices.

The potential shift back to producing rare earths shows how these mining projects evolve over time in response to the market, said professor Rod Eggert, deputy director of the Critical Materials Institute at the Colorado School of Mines.

Front Range also signed a transfer agreement with Colorado School of Mines. Adeena Chughtai will start there as a junior in the fall and said, as a community college student, she never thought she’d go to a school like Mines.

“It’s been something to keep an eye on for a long time,” says Matthew Siegfried, a glaciologist at the Colorado School of Mines in Golden.

Qualified Red Rocks Community College (RRCC) students who want to transfer to the Colorado School of Mines in pursuit of a STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) bachelor’s degree, will soon have a more direct route to achieving their goal.

“Thermal technologies in general are one of the most promising approaches for actually achieving PFAS destruction,” Timothy J. Strathmann, a professor of civil and environmental engineering at the Colorado School of Mines, tells C&EN.

Angel Abbud-Madrid embraced the space mania of the ’60s – he drank it down with Tang. At age 8, he watched the American moonwalk from his living room in Mexico, relieved that aliens didn’t intervene.

Brad Handler and Morgan Bazilian of the Payne Institute for Public Policy at Colorado School of Mines wrote this opinion piece with Katie Auth of the Energy for Growth Hub.