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Dr. Laura Crossey, a professor in The University of New Mexico's Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences, has been named a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). Election as an AAAS Fellow is a prestigious honor...

An image of the "Whale Galaxy" (NGC 4631), made with the National Science Foundation's Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA), reveals hair-like filaments of the galaxy's magnetic field protruding above and below the galaxy's disk. The spiral galaxy is...

Archeological researchers at The University of New Mexico secured a $200,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Interior Bureau of Land Management to study the prehistory of the under-researched southeast region of New Mexico and nearby west Texas. “A...

Though science has advanced considerably since the days of Charles Darwin, the evolutionary history of life on Earth is still largely a mystery – one being solved incrementally by the dedicated biologists who pore over fossils and genetic data to better...

The UNM Center for Advanced Research Computing team of experts is at the International Conference for High Performance Computing, Networking, Storage, and Analysis (SC19), the world’s...

Researchers at the University of New Mexico (UNM) and California State Polytechnic University (CalPoly) address a major gap in the scientific literature, finding that medical Cannabis may not only treat such health conditions as chronic pain and...

When attending The University of New Mexico, students might think that conducting research involving marine life is wishful thinking considering the University is land-locked and located in one of the driest states in the country. However, UNM Associate...

Railroads transport huge amounts of freight and people every day across the continent and being on time is of paramount importance. There are approximately 100,000 railroad bridges in the United States, and more than half are over 100 years old, making...

The University of New Mexico’s Museum of Southwestern Biology (MSB) recently expanded its cold storage capabilities with the addition of two new cryotanks boosting capacity for liquid-nitrogen storage from 270,000 to 450,000 samples, an increase of 67...

Bitcoin, Ethereum, Litecoin and Monero – the names of digital-based ‘cryptocurrencies’ are being heard more and more frequently. But despite having no physical representation, could these new methods of exchange actually be negatively impacting our...