News & Events Overview
Find all the latest from the College of Natural Sciences.
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Allan MacDonald Wins Kavli Prize in Nanoscience
MacDonald and two colleagues were honored for “foundational work that established the field of twistronics.”
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Universe Today
‘High-Res’ is the Secret to Finding Alien Life with the Next Great Space Telescope
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Top AI Graduate Programs That Can Launch a Rewarding Career in Artificial Intelligence
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College Highlights
McDonald Observatory
Astronomers Thought the Early Universe Was Full of Hydrogen. Now They’ve Found It.
Podcasts
Can Tiny Bubbles Help Save the Planet?
Seagrasses store a lot of carbon in their tissues, making them a potential counterweight to rising levels of atmospheric CO2.
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Cut, Paste, Cure
Gene editing—with the promise of treating disease, improving crops and studying life itself—“has been one of the fastest bench-to-bedside technologies ever.”
Learning Discovery
Launched 20 years ago, the Freshman Research Initiative has become a national model for teaching hands-on STEM to undergraduates.
Communicating the Beauty in the Abstract
Q&A with Audrick Pyronneau, Ph.D. Student
The Graduate Student, Mathematics
