Every August, humanity has a rendezvous with the cosmos. It is an ancient tradition, almost a rite of summer, to go out under the cover of night and wait for a "shooting star". The highest peak of the ...

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Coffee, Chemistry and the Community ... Aerospace Engineering's gas gun, capable of propelling projectiles to velocities exceeding 7 kilometers per second (15,658 mph) ... refurbished spaces ...

The SETI Institute awarded a new education grant through its Support Technology, Innovation, Development and Education ...

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The recent UVA graduates all plan to continue their studies in health and the environment with the help of Rotary ...

Scientists are turning to simulations and experiments to understand how life-indicating molecules behave, so we might know ...

I coauthored a paper on a microbe that might incorporate arsenic in its major molecules. It was wrongly retracted. What can ...