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$6 million grant to aid in cancer prevention research

By Mark Goloby June 24, 2015

With a nearly $6 million research grant from the Cancer Research and Prevention Institute of Texas (CPRIT), A&M’s Combinatorial Drug Discovery Program will be able to pour more resources into...

SpaceX

Texas A&M to host SpaceX Hyperloop Pod Competition

By Zach Grinovich June 24, 2015

SpaceX, a private space exploration company, has announced that Texas A&M will host the design review phase of the Hyperloop Pod Competition in Jan. 2016. Hyperloop is a concept developed by SpaceX...

The Giant Magellan Telescope is officially under construction.

World’s largest telescope approved for construction

By Zach Grinovich June 17, 2015

Texas A&M University continues to play a huge part in an endeavor that will revolutionize the field of astronomy, as the construction of the world’s largest telescope has recently reached another...

NASA

An Aggie at NASA: rain or shine, the code goes on

By John Rangel June 17, 2015

Tropical storms and Python scripts – a far cry from Apollo or Mars, but so went the past few days at Johnson Space Center. Houston was a beehive of preparation long before Tropical Storm Bill was...

The Giant Magellan Telescope is officially under construction.

Staff Column: The GMT couples scientific progress with cultural capital

By John Rangel June 17, 2015

The universe has secrets, but mankind’s largest telescope will soon be built to unlock many of them. The Giant Magellan Telescope officially entered its construction phase after its 11 international...

Sci Tech Editor John Rangel will spend 10 weeks interning at NASA's Johnson Space Center this summer

An Aggie at NASA

It might have been the Lunar Lander suspended above the hall or the casual lunch discussions on astrodynamics, but sometime after I drove onto NASA Johnson Space Center’s campus it hit me –...

Dark Matter

Texas A&M research project in pursuit of elusive particles

By Zachary Grinovich May 3, 2015

Seeing isn’t necessarily believing anymore. Due to technological advances, physicists can say with a high degree of certainty, that everything that can be seen in the physical world is less than...

Dark Matter (3)

Dark Matter

May 3, 2015

A prototype of the StarRotor’s compressor, which is projected to be up to 60 percent efficient, as opposed to a current engine’s 25 percent efficiency. 

New York to Chicago on 3 gallons of gas

By Srinivas Harshal April 29, 2015

Over the past 200 years scientists and engineers have worked tirelessly to perfect the heart of any vehicle — the engine. However, with the increased pressure to go “green,” many automakers...

Scott Mattison gives a tour of the microscopes he uses which have lasers pulsing at incredible speeds,  those lasers are even capable of burning objects. 

Researchers find use in ‘the sound of light’

By Zachary Grinovich April 28, 2015

It is hard to imagine the sound of light, but a group of A&M researchers hope to do just that — use light as a way to acoustically image previously unseen biological processes.  Brian Applegate,...

The Vet School Open House held a petting zoo where visitors met various animals on Saturday, April 25th such as this red tegu named Scarlet.

Open house draws crowds of humans, animals alike

By Connor Smith April 26, 2015

An open house showcased the College of Veterinary Medicine to the public eye Saturday.Texas A&M’s veterinary school has been a university pillar for nearly a century, and its clinical impact...

Architecture for Health Studio

Students help design hospital for Honduras

Srinivas Harshal April 23, 2015

Senior environmental design students will show as many as seven different design proposals for a new public hospital in Roatán, the largest of Honduras’ Bay Islands.Representatives from the...

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