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ASU Student Team Finalist in 2024 NASA-sponsored BIG Idea Challenge with Innovative Design
Arizona State University’s Luminosity Lab student team was recently selected as a finalist in NASA’s Breakthrough, Innovative, and Game-Changing (BIG) Idea Challenge. The group is one of six teams selected by NASA to present at the 2024 BIG…
ASU: The Next Generation of Cybersecurity Professionals Hone Skills in the Dojo
Tales of massive data breaches at well-known companies like Bank of America, American Family Insurance and T-Mobile dominate the national news. The Internet Crime Report, compiled annually by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation, warns…
Carnegie Mellon University Announces 2024 Honorary Degree Recipients
Carnegie Mellon University will award honorary degrees(opens in new window) to four individuals at its 2024 Commencement(opens in new window) ceremony set for Sunday, May 12 in Gesling Stadium. The recipients will be recognized for their…
Machine Learning, Quantum Computing Can Transform Health Care, Including Diagnosing Pneumonia
Pneumonia, an infection in the lungs that causes difficulty breathing, is most commonly diagnosed through chest X-rays.
Typically, those chest X-rays are read by radiologists, but workforce shortages(opens in new window) mean that in…
ASU Collaborates with Deca Technologies for Advanced Packaging Research and Development
While there is some difference of opinion about its obsolescence, there is little debate that Moore’s Law is slowing down.
Named after the co-founder of Intel, Gordon Moore, in 1965, Moore’s Law reliably predicted the pace of…
Innovating Manufacturing Processes for Everyday Products Across Industries
Everyday products could be lighter, cheaper and last longer if the research Xiangjia “Cindy” Li is working on succeeds.
Li — an assistant professor of aerospace and mechanical engineering at the School for Engineering of Matter,…
Toba Super-Eruption Unveils Fresh Insights on Early Human Migration
Modern humans dispersed from Africa multiple times, but the event that led to global expansion occurred less than 100,000 years ago.
Some researchers hypothesize that dispersals were restricted to “green corridors” formed during humid…
ASU Welcomes Protein-Folding Expert for Eyring Lectures
How did the first living cells come into being from the earth’s molecular soup 3.5 billion years ago?
“Despite much speculation — maybe RNA came first, or proteins, or chemical networks — there’s not yet a consensus origins story,” says…
AI-Powered Machines Test New Materials, Reducing Human Effort
We are living in a material world.
In the face of an intense period of global evolution, including climate change, aging populations and an increased need to conserve resources such as food and water, the fate of the future may…
ASU’s Herberger Young Scholars Academy Celebrates Four Students Winning Prestigious Cambridge…
Michael Twilling, the executive director of the Gary K. Herberger Young Scholars Academy on Arizona State University’s West Valley campus, likes to say the school “opens doors” for its students.
“These kids often run into ceilings in a…