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The College of Arts & Sciences is gearing up for Giving Day on Thursday, March 12 and we hope you'll join in the fun!

The domed wind and thermal shield covers NASA InSight lander's seismometer

InSight detects gravity waves, low rumbles and devilish dust

More than a year after NASA’s Mars InSight lander touched down in a pebble-filled crater on the Martian equator, the rusty red planet is now serving up its meteorological secrets: Gravity waves, surface swirling “dust devils,” and the steady, low rumbl

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MAR 05Exploring the Universe with CCAT-prime – an Update" CCAT-prime is a 6-m, off-axis, low-emissivity, large field-of-view submillimeter telescope that is being independently funded and built by a consortium consisting of Cornell University, a German...

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