The electrical grid faces a mounting barrage of threats that could trigger a butterfly effect — floods, superstorms, heat waves, cyberattacks, not to mention its own ballooning complexity and size — that the nation is unprepared to handle, according to one West Virginia University ...
BY ERSHAD KAMOL West Virginia University has teamed up with NASA to develop West Virginia Small Satellite Center of Excellence at WVU’s Statler College of Engineering, with the aim to launch a small satellite and create new jobs. The project started in July and recruitment to staff ...
by Faye Flam Climate-change activists should take some lessons from the mismanagement and miscommunication surrounding the pandemic. In both cases, people across the political spectrum feel helpless in the face of the problem. In both cases, experts need to figure out how to get people ...
The Southeastern Universities Research Association honored Maura McLaughlin, director of the Center for Gravitational Waves and Cosmology with the SURA Distinguished Scientist Award. The awards were presented by James Weyhenmeyer,, vice president for research at Auburn University and a ...
There’s a tongue-in-cheek joke that occasionally circulates on the internet: What did Watson and Crick discover? Rosalind Franklin’s notes. Franklin’s work in physical chemistry and X-ray diffraction found DNA to have a helical structure, with her mathematical analyses suggesting ...
BY VAAGEESHA DAS My grandpa loved math. His passion for it spilled over to his four sons and his nine grandchildren. And because of that, math became something I excelled at. From a young age, my parents would drill me on formulas and teach me things like multiplication and long ...