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Geeta Shroff is among the five undergraduate students who received the NSF grants.

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.

Dreams are made up of several fragments of thought that piece themselves together once a person wakes up.

How Things Work: Dreams

Dreams can act as therapy by allowing the dreamer to enact suppressed desires.

Face blindness hampers a person’s ability to make sense out of faces of people they are already familiar with. Patients fail to tell faces apart and rely on hair, clothes, and other attributes to identify people.

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.

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