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Science & Technology

Russians on the moon

A renewed space race

Josh Hopkins November 3, 2015

The United States is currently the only country on Earth to have sent astronauts to the moon, but that record may not hold as other nations begin to turn their gaze toward Earth’s largest satellite. Russia’s...

Chance Q&A

Q&A: The Science of Cinema

By Barath Menon November 2, 2015

Battalion SciTech reporter Barath Menon interviewed Franklin Chance, the creative technical director of creature development at Industrial Light and Magic, ILM — an animation studio that has helped...

Astronaut Story

Astronaut’s space flight time breaks U.S. record

Zach Grinovich October 29, 2015

Spaceflight is dangerous, but the record for longest time spent in orbit continues to be broken. Early Thursday morning at 12:05 a.m. Eastern Time, Scott Kelly, an American astronaut currently aboard the...

Chemistry road show

A&M prof takes colorful approach to STEM

By Barath Menon October 27, 2015

Jim Pennington may be known as a professor on campus, but in many parts of Texas he is known as the “Chemistry Magician.”  Pennington brings engaging experiments to schools across the...

Blinn team E

25 by 25 expands to community colleges

Josh Hopkins October 27, 2015

Five community colleges across Texas will soon co-enroll Texas A&M engineering students, as the university finds new ways to meet its lofty goal of 25,000 engineering students by 2025. The new “Engineering...

Food lab

Food for the ‘final frontier’

Zach Grinovich October 27, 2015

Roughly 40 percent of the food astronauts will eat in orbit comes from Texas A&M. Through a long standing partnership with NASA, university scientists and technicians mix science with culinary skills...

Thermoelectric

Powered by heat

By Zach Grinovich October 21, 2015

Cars, cell phones and humans all have one thing in common — they lose significant portions of energy through the production of excess heat. A&M researchers are attempting to capture this wasted...

science dean

New science dean talks A&M, research

Josh Hopkins October 21, 2015

Battalion news reporter Josh Hopkins sat down with Meigan Aronson, who was named dean of the College of Science in early October, to talk about her vision for the college and how her first few weeks on...

Research Mice

World’s largest mice collection drives research

By Barath Menon October 20, 2015

There’s a massive mouse population at the Texas Institute of Genomic Medicine facility but no exterminator will be called — these mice are used for research at Texas A&M and across the...

Russia Researcher

Collaboration across the sea

By Gracie Mock October 18, 2015

One Texas A&M student has decided to add a twist to her college experience this semester by researching Chinese aircraft markets from a Russian perspective. The United States-Russia Forum, SURF,...

Meredith Davies, Gena Markantonis, Alyssa Michalke, Ricci Seguban and Sahithy Gudavalli are enrolled in the Dwight Look College. Just over 21 percent of enrollees in the college are female.

Engineering a new image

By Josh Hopkins October 14, 2015

For the second year in a row, Texas A&M has the largest class of female freshmen engineering majors in the nation. Women at Texas A&M’s Dwight Look College of Engineering are present in greater...

High speed Train

Nation’s first high speed rail awaits environmental review results

By Chris Martin October 14, 2015

Future Texas A&M students could travel from campus to Houston or Dallas in a third of the time it currently takes, if a proposed high speed rail line between the two cities passes a pending government...

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