The elementary school students making paper parachutes and homemade kaleidoscopes now will — in about 10 years or so — be studying aerospace engineering and nuclear fission. That’s the hope behind programs like Colorado School of Mines’ third annual ....

“It's certainly very hot, right,” said Ian Lange, who studies the uranium and nuclear industries as an associate professor of economics and business at the Colorado School of Mines. “Prices are high.”

Colorado School of Mines students can now have their own “ Shark Tank” experience thanks to the campus’ new Beck Venture Center.

“We’re already starting to get that kind of synergy where the companies come in, the investors come in, companies bring more investors, investors bring more companies, and ... it becomes a place to be for those connections,” Zach Bennett, founding ....

There's some irony in how, for years, climate activists criticized the institution for allegedly underselling the odds of an energy transition, said Morgan Bazilian, director of the Colorado School of Mines' Payne Institute for Public Policy. The GOP ....

Not only is carbon storage necessary for capturing and ridding the air of emissions that either are taken from industrial pipes — or, in the future, will be pulled directly from the air — but it’s been proven effective, said Anna Littlefield ....

Colorado School of Mines and Arapahoe Community College are teaming up for an EV battery challenge sponsored by global automaker Stellantis.

“Geologic hydrogen has massive potential,” said Mengli Zhang, a geophysicist at the Colorado School of Mines. “The geologic hydrogen gold rush is coming.

“The earlier melt that we’ve been seeing for quite a while is a relatively clear climate change signal,” said Adrienne Marshall, a hydrologist at the Colorado School of Mines.

“It’s different from the electricity sector, where widely available alternatives to fossil fuels like wind, solar and batteries have come down dramatically in cost,” Morgan Bazilian, a professor of public policy at the Colorado School of Mines, said ....

“The notion that you see on websites for companies is ‘Here comes the brine water and the magic chemical tweezers pull only this out and everything else goes back in the earth,” said Corby Anderson, director of the Kroll Institute For Extractive ....

“There are critical uses for PFAS that are going to be hard to replace with other chemicals — those will take more time,” said Timm Strathmann, a Colorado School of Mines professor who researches PFAS. “Then there are products where we already have ....