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Undergraduate students awarded NSF Research Fellowships
Five Carnegie Mellon seniors received the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship, which will fund them for three years of graduate studies.
Findings: Phobos — a closer look
Learn about Phobos, Mars’ small, but rather unfortunate, moon.
How Things Work: Dreams
Dreams can act as therapy by allowing the dreamer to enact suppressed desires.
Health Talk: Face blindness
Prosopagnosia or face blindness can prevent a person from recognizing even commonly seen faces.
HealthLine
Recent studies show that heavy drinking may lead to an earlier onset of Alzheimer’s disease.
SciTech Briefs
Charles Darwin’s papers, including the first draft of The Origin of Species, can now be viewed online.