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Science & Technology

History of Minorities in Engineering

Prof delves into lack of women, minorities in STEM education

By Connor Smith December 3, 2015

A look into many engineering classrooms reveals something beyond the physics and math covering the whiteboards — an imbalance in gender and minority representation among the students in attendance. The...

AggieSat4 will launch on the Atlas V rocket Thursday to the International Space Station.

Ready for launch

By Josh Hopkins December 1, 2015

A piece of Aggieland will launch into space Thursday. The AggieSat4, a student-built satellite, will be carried aboard an AtlasV rocket on its journey to the International Space Station. AggieSat4 is the...

Amazon Drone

Amazon rolls out new drone model Sunday

Connor Smith November 30, 2015

Amazon took another step toward its automated delivery-by-drone future with the announcement of a new unmanned aircraft system, or UAS, model Sunday. On Sunday Amazon released a video featuring former...

Chinese Accelerator

Chinese ‘Super Collider’ gains steam

Chris Martin November 23, 2015

The Large Hadron Collider — the world’s largest particle accelerator — was built just seven years ago, but a Chinese project already hopes to usurp the title. Chinese scientists have...

Malaysian Airlines

Team calculates trajectory of missing Flight 370

By Josh Hopkins November 23, 2015

Two Texas A&M graduate students presented their work examining what happened to Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 at a supercomputing conference in Austin last week. Malaysian Airlines Flight 370 was an...

Cyclotron

On-campus particle accelerator undergoes battery of upgrades

Zach Grinovich November 19, 2015

T exas A&M’s on-campus particle accelerator is due for some upgrades. The Cyclotron Institute conducts cutting-edge research for a variety of industries, including NASA and the health care community....

Aggies Invent

Students to invent medical solutions in 48-hour event

By Connor Smith November 19, 2015

November’s “Aggies Invent” will challenge students at Texas A&M to design new ways to approach health care problems. Approximately 60 students will participate in the event, which...

NASA Ground Station

NASA teams up with A&M to bring new tech to CStat

By Zach Grinovich November 16, 2015

Satellites collect large amounts of data about space, from temperature and radiation data to images of the planets. Due to their distance from Earth, the data is often difficult to access, but a “ground...

Giant Magellan Telescope

Construction of world’s largest telescope begins on Chilean soil

By Connor Smith November 12, 2015

A&M professors were joined by scientists from around the world at the groundbreaking ceremony for the future world’s largest telescope in the mountains of Chile Wednesday. “The Giant Magellan...

High Speed Rail graphic

Texas high speed rail meets opposition from land owners

By Chris Martin November 10, 2015

group of Texans has organized against the company that hopes to build the first high-speed rail in the United States. The opposing group — Texans Against High-Speed Rail — formed in February...

Eller 3

The man behind the building: David Eller’s life, career, impact on A&M

By Connor Smith November 5, 2015

The name “Eller” may only seem familiar to the oceanography and meteorology students who go to class in the building named after the man, but David Eller has had a reaching impact on both Texas...

Google Car

Automated cars generate questions of safety, legality

By Chris Martin November 5, 2015

It’s a familiar experience for most drivers — the tire screech and sudden jolt of a road accident, followed by insurance claims to establish the party at fault. The day may soon come, however,...

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