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Science & Technology

Student research week

Student research in the spotlight

By Sanna Bhai @bhaisanna March 30, 2017

The nation’s largest student-run university research symposium is about to wrap up after students from different disciplines presented their research in a three-day competition. The 20th annual Student...

Attendees gathered outside the Mitchell Physics Institute building last year to admire the five-barrel depth charge.

Bringing physics to life

By Sanna Bhai @bhaisanna March 30, 2017

Virtual tours, hands-on science demonstrations and a five-barrel depth charge — these are a few of interactive displays this weekend at the 15th annual Physics and Engineering Festival. This Saturday...

Population demographics

Semester-long lecture series explores healthcare and state demographics

By Kylee Reid @CoastalAg March 27, 2017

The College of Architecture and School of Public Health have teamed up once again for a coalition designed to educate students and faculty of the overlapping nature of the architecture and health fields...

Texas A&M is working to design a robot to assist astronauts in space.

A&M, NASA partner to design ‘Robonaut’

It won’t be too long before robots are a part of everyday life on Earth, but Texas A&M is working with NASA to design a robot which will assist astronauts in space. Dezhen Song, professor of...

Society for Automotive Engineers Aero Design team members make final touches to their aircraft before their flight test.

Aggies place 2nd at international aero design competition

By Chris Martin @martin19340 March 23, 2017

While many students took last week off for spring break, a team of Aggies placed second overall at an international aero design competition in Dallas.Each year, the Society for Automotive Engineers Aero...

SpaceX recently announced its goal to fly two private citizens around the Moon.

Space tourism now more possible than ever, experts say

As SpaceX continues to push the horizon of space exploration — most recently with its ambitious goal to fly private citizens around the Moon — space tourism is an up-and-coming reality. Since...

Professor Tim Davis creates visual art from music.

Seeing sound

By Pranav Kannan March 20, 2017

Sparse matrix algorithms are behind many of the everyday tools used by people around the world. They are used in Google Street View, Google Earth, engineering simulations, financial markets and power systems....

German Wings

A&M prof leads team of researchers to investigate Germanwings plane crash

Alex Sein March 20, 2017

An international team of scientists and mathematicians have been working to reconstruct the crash of Germanwings flight 9525, which burst into thousands of pieces upon impact in the the French Alps in...

At last year's SXSW, Texas A&M Invents for an Intelligent Future allowed attendees to operate robots through a course with a video feed to their goggles.

A&M brings chemistry road show, virtual reality to SXSW

By Josh Hopkins March 20, 2017

Among the dozens of displays, interactive events and panels available to participants of South by Southwest last week, the Aggies stole the show with seven activations highlighting work from across the...

Associate professor Bruce Dvorak (purple) works with his graduate students to check temperature, status and growth of numerous plants.

Langford’s roof goes green

By Prateek Jain @prateekjn1 March 6, 2017

Green roofs have thrived for hundreds of years in the Mediterranean climate but have not worked in areas like Texas. But an ongoing research project at the Langford Architecture Center has identified ideal...

League of Legends

A&M League of Legends team stays undefeated

By Josh Hopkins @texasjoshua1 March 5, 2017

After another successful weekend, the undefeated Aggie League of Legends collegiate team is in prime position to slingshot their way into the semifinals. League of Legends is an online competitive game...

SpaceX plans to send two private citizens around the Moon by 2018.

SpaceX works to fly 2 private citizens to Moon by end of 2018

By Alex Sein @alexandrsein March 5, 2017

SpaceX announced last Monday that they will fly two people around the moon by the fourth quarter of 2018. Their plan, according to their official website, is to fly an unmanned Dragon 2 capsule in automatic...

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