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President Cohon discusses plans for the new Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.

New energy institute takes interdisciplinary approach

Last Friday, Carnegie Mellon unveiled its first official preview of the university’s newest addition: the Wilton E. Scott Institute for Energy Innovation.

Carnegie Mellon researchers are developing a system that inspects thousands of images of cancer cells, such as those shown above, to improve cancer diagnoses.

Cell-inspecting system could improve cancer diagnoses

There are relatively few tools available to help a physician determine what exact course of action when a potential tumor is found. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon are about to help them out.

On Oct. 2 - 5, a team of Carnegie Mellon researchers will test an astro-surgery technique aboard the NASA C-9, which will simulate zero-gravity conditions.

Researchers to test system that helps with astro-surgery

A team of biomedical researchers at Carnegie Mellon are developing a dome-shaped containment unit that makes performing surgeries in the zero-gravity conditions of outer space a reality.

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A team of astronomers at Johns Hopkins University discovered a galaxy believed to be the oldest and most distant galaxy ever observed.

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