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After the coronavirus pandemic disrupted global supply chains in 2020, a shortage of semiconductor chips occurred just as demand for consumer electronics increased from a population stuck at home. At the same time, international tensions …

Ritisha Das, a senior in Barrett, the Honors College at Arizona State University, has been awarded a 2024 Brooke Owens Fellowship, a national award for exceptional undergraduate women and gender minorities who aspire to careers in aerospace…

At the forefront of scientific discovery, the Center for Biological Physics at Arizona State University brings together experts from biology, physics, health, chemistry and engineering to advance biological physics research. “We have the…

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…

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…

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…

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,…

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…

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…

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…