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Mild problem-solving task improves brain function after a concussion, new study suggests
People who deeply grasp the pain or happiness of others also process music differently in the brain
Ancient “Sea Monsters” Reveal How the Ever-Changing Planet Shapes Life, Past and Present
SAPIENS: Why Aid Remains Out of Reach for Some Rohingya Refugees
SMU physicist and her students join national laboratories, other universities in high-stakes hunt for elusive dark matter
SMU students share their research at SMU Research Day 2018
Radar images show large swath of West Texas oil patch is heaving and sinking at alarming rates
SMU student to share innovative texting app at SXSW Red Bull Launch Institute
DACA led to improved educational outcomes, lower teenage birthrate for young immigrant community
New study finds couples do poorly at knowing when their partner is sad or feeling down

Native Bison Hunters Amplified Climate Impacts on North American Prairie Fires

Prehistoric puzzle settled: carbon dioxide link to global warming 22 million years ago

Prehistoric humans formed complex mating networks to avoid inbreeding

$2.5 million NSF grant gives teachers a math assessment tool to help students

Slate: Making the Perfect Sprinter More Perfect

Dallas Innovates: SMU, UTA Scientists To Help Unlock Mystery of Neutrinos

Tweets about Usain Bolt, asymmetry, running, gait

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WFAA Verify: Is West Texas sinking?

Fox4WARD: Knowing how our partner is feeling

Daily Planet: Star Wars come to life in SMU chemist’s invention

GAINcast Episode 89: How Speed Happens (with Peter Weyand)

The CW33: Dark Matter Day rocks SMU’s campus

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Star evolution ends as an exploding Red Giant: “Our sun might eventually experience this as well. But Earth will be inhospitable long before then. We won’t be here to see it.”

—Farley Ferrante, graduate student, SMU Dept. of Physics

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Earlier Research News

Ronald A. Rohrer, Cecil & Ida Green Chair and professor of engineering at SMU Lyle, honored with TAMEST membership

Prehistoric puzzle settled: carbon dioxide link to global warming 22 million years ago

Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center awards first research grants to shape economic, migration policies

Prehistoric humans formed complex mating networks to avoid inbreeding

A composite window into human history

$2.5 million NSF grant gives teachers a math assessment tool to help students

Class of 2017: SMU professor named outstanding teacher by UT Regents

SMU chemist wins prestigious NSF Career Award

SMU Anthropologist Caroline Brettell Elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Relentless gene hunter, NIH Director Francis Collins, to speak at SMU Commencement May 20

SMU In The News

Native Bison Hunters Amplified Climate Impacts on North American Prairie Fires

Psychology Today: Empathic People Use Social Brain Circuitry to Process Music

KERA: Empathetic People Experience Music Differently, SMU Study Finds

SAPIENS: Why Aid Remains Out of Reach for Some Rohingya Refugees

WFAA Verify: Is West Texas sinking?

The Guardian: Texas sinkholes — oil and gas drilling increases threat, scientists warn

Fox4WARD: Knowing how our partner is feeling

KERA: 8 Questions For The Government To Consider Before Investigating Encrypted Data

The Dallas Morning News: Earthquakes at DFW Airport continued for years after oil and gas wastewater well was shut

Inside Higher Ed: Study Finds Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Increased Educational Attainment