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NASA

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December 31, 2024

The NASA Science Activation Program’s Astronomy Activation Ambassadors (AAA) project aims to measurably enhance student Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) engagement via middle school, high school, and community college science teacher professional development. In 2024, AAA transitioned its focus to the development of an Astronomy Academy with varying levels of extent and intensity available […] Read more

EurekAlert!

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January 6, 2014

IOP Publishing and the American Astronomical Society are pleased to announce the launch of the Astronomy Image Explorer (AIE). The AIE provides researchers with quick and easy access to hundreds of thousands of images, illustrations, graphs, charts, and videos that have been published in peer-reviewed journals. The AIE has tools designed to aid researchers in their discovery and use of all types of graphic resources and is available free online to scientists and the public alike. Read more

EurekAlert!

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February 8, 2012

A team of astronomers led by UCLA research astronomer Michael Rich has used a novel telescope to discover a previously unknown companion to a nearby galaxy, known as NGC 4449, some 12.5 million light years from Earth. The new galaxy had escaped even the prying eyes of the Hubble Space Telescope. Read more

EurekAlert!

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February 24, 2012

A study of X-rays emitted a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away has unmasked a stellar mass black hole in Andromeda, a spiral galaxy about 2.6 million light-years from Earth. Two Clemson University researchers joined an an international team of astronomers in publishing their findings in a pair of scientific journals this week. Read more

EurekAlert!

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January 26, 2012

The ASU Center for Digital Antiquity contains the world's largest repository of worldwide archaeology data. A new grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation enables the center to expand content, thereby preserving archaeological records, some of which have been lost because of degradation, software obsolescence and inadequate documentation. It is an especially tragic loss with archaeological data, representing a loss of irreplaceable information about our heritage. "You can't dig a site… Read more

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February 19, 2012

The modernization of isolated villages brings about a change in human information flow patterns that not only destroys the social fabric of the community, but also the economy and the landscape, according to Sander van der Leeuw, a Senior Sustainability Scientist at Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability. He will present his views Feb. 19 at the AAAS annual meeting. Read more

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March 29, 2012

The Rob and Melani Walton Fund of the Walton Family Foundation is providing $27.5 million to Arizona State University's Global Institute of Sustainability to develop and deploy promising solutions to sustainability challenges including energy, water, environment, climate, urbanization, social transformation and decision-making in local, national and global contexts and to educate future leaders in sustainability. The investment to ASU is designated entirely for program support. Read more

EurekAlert!

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March 29, 2012

Lawrence Krauss has spent much of his lifetime trying to solve the riddles nature has put before us. He also spends a lot of his time communicating the complexities of nature and its hidden beauty to a wider public. Those latter efforts have earned Krauss, a Foundation Professor in the School of Earth and Space Exploration and the Department of Physics at Arizona State University, the 2012 Public Service Award from the National Science Board. Read more

EurekAlert!

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March 8, 2012

Leading scholars and researchers will explore current examples of why we fear others, its genesis and address if it's time for a change. Read more

Scientific American

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January 15, 2026

Wikipedia had to fight to establish its legitimacy—and now it faces a new existential threat posed by generative AI Read more