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The end of the summer can be a stressful time for many scientists. Professors, researchers, and graduate students, returning…

1 Oct 2018 - By Julie Davis

Tiny acorns make giant oak trees. But did you know that entire planets are born from pieces even smaller than…

26 Sep 2018 - By Adam Gattuso

Superheroes, archenemies, actors, and animated characters galore… what do they have in common with dark matter, star formation, and…

15 Sep 2018 - By Charles Blue

Chajnantor is a name given to a plateau in the high Atacama Desert. In the language of the region’s…

1 Sep 2018 - By Stephen Case

The Very Large Array Sky Survey is observing 33,885 square degrees of the sky over seven years, mapping 82…

On this day in history, August 6, 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell noticed a bit of “scruff” on the chart…

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