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Science & Technology

Living Learning Community looks to build a committee within the dorms for mostly freshman students.

Program encourages students to get involved on campus

Sanna Bhai April 5, 2017

When Garrett Medellin, communication junior, first came to campus, he felt out of place and wasn’t sure if Texas A&M was the place for him, but by immersing himself in a Living Learning Community...

Kyle Field

T-Mobile invests $3.5 Million in Kyle Field

Josh Hopkins April 3, 2017

A $3.5 million deal announced last week will bring T-Mobile into Kyle Field to improve gameday connectivity for the company’s customers. As part of Kyle Field’s overhaul, which began in 2014,...

A new program called "Texas Cares" aims to assist those who have dementia and will make their lives during that time as comfortable and pleasant as possible.

A&M, Baylor faculty create project aimed at helping dementia patient caregivers

Timothy Deville April 3, 2017

In Texas alone, there are over one million unpaid caregivers for the growing number of individuals living with dementia. Dementia is a disorder that affects mental processes caused by brain disease or...

Harvard professor and local chefs collaborated to explore the physics of cooking at the Mitchell Physics Institute Friday evening.

Cooking up science

Preheat the oven to 325 degrees Fahrenheit, bake for 20 minutes and cool for another five minutes — even the most simple of tasks in cooking have millions of chemical reactions happening on the surface...

Petroleum engineering junior Shahroz Khan and his partner light methane bubbles on fire, among 200 total demos at Saturday's physics festival.

A&M’s Physics and Engineering festival excites public about science

By Chris Martin @martin19340 April 2, 2017

“We do something some would call a little bit crazy — we light our hands on fire,” said petroleum engineering junior Shahroz Khan as he performed a demonstration at A&M’s 15th...

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....

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