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News in 2023

Purdue reputation in space brings better understanding of the stars, planets and everything in between
12/21/2023

Finding new ways to adapt to a growing weather threat
12/21/2023

The hottest year on record 
12/18/2023

NOAA Climate Program Office’s ERB, AC4 And CVP Programs Award $3 Million For New Applications Of Satellite Data To Aerosol Research
12/6/2023

Unwrapping Uranus and its icy secrets: What NASA would learn from a mission to a wild world
11/29/2023

Scientists look at pyrite isotopes on the ocean floor in a whole new light
11/27/2023

Distinguished and Named Professorship Ceremony honors faculty, administrators
11/15/2023

Purdue honors researchers with Seed for Success Acorn Awards
11/3/2023

How and Why Do Violent Tornadoes Form?
11/2/2023

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx to bring samples of asteroid Bennu to Earth: What to know
11/2/2023

New research shows the moon might be older than we thought
10/30/2023

Space Junk Is Polluting Earth’s Stratosphere with Vaporized Metal
10/27/2023

Billions of Years Ago, Venus May Have Had a Key Earthlike Feature
10/26/2023

The quest to understand tornadoes
10/19/2023

Metals from Rockets and Satellites Are Polluting Earth's Upper Atmosphere
10/18/2023

Clear Skies Ahead: Conversations about Careers in Meteorology and Beyond
10/18/2023

Purdue scientist among first to study asteroid sample
10/17/2023

Signatures of the Space Age: Spacecraft metals left in the wake of humanity’s path to the stars
10/16/2023

Prof. Andrew Freed inducted in Book of Great Teachers
10/16/2023

Scientist explains why Bennu asteroid samples are a big deal
10/16/2023

Climate Change Projections Update and the Red-Hot Summer of 2023
10/13/2023

Analyzing Clouds and Climate Change
10/11/2023

Climate change could expose up to 2.2 billion people in India and the Indus Valley: PNAS study
10/10/2023

These are the places that could become ‘unlivable’ as the Earth warms
10/10/2023

Deadly humid heat could hit billions, spread as far as US Midwest, study says
10/10/2023

Study: Climate change to drive temperatures too hot for humans
10/10/2023

The Midwest US could be a hotspot for deadly ‘moist heat stress’ as global temperatures climb
10/10/2023

Unbearable heat could make some parts of the world uninhabitable if warming continues
10/10/2023

Journey to Jurabi Point
10/9/2023

Humans are about to explore a metal-rich asteroid for the first time. Here's why.
10/9/2023

Purdue scientist: Meteor confirmed over Bloomington
10/5/2023

Meteor confirmed over Bloomington
10/5/2023

Meteor confirmed over Bloomington
10/5/2023

What mud cracks on Mars tell us about whether life could have formed on the planet
10/2/2023

Enhanced Geothermal, Offshore Wind Energy Gain Earthshot™ Support at PNNL
09/29/2023

NSF award creates new center to study subduction earthquakes and associated hazards
09/26/2023

Asteroid pieces could offer insights into the start of life on Earth, according to Purdue scientist
09/26/2023

No, the OSIRIS-REx probe will not bring back asteroid space 'germs'
09/25/2023

Special delivery! Biggest-ever haul of asteroid dust and rock returns to Earth
09/25/2023

Explainer: How is climate change driving dangerous 'wet-bulb' temperatures?
09/22/2023

Mars region offers NASA rover environment to search for evidence of ancient microbial life
09/20/2023

Bringing home asteroids: Purdue scientist will be among the first to examine asteroid pieces from NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission
09/18/2023

Risk of mass deaths as heatwaves start to pass survivability threshold
09/11/2023

NSF announces two awards through the Centers for Innovation and Community Engagement in Solid Earth Geohazards
09/8/2023

'Every hurricane is different': Why experts are still estimating Idalia's impact
09/8/2023

Optimizing Carbonate Classification on Mars
09/7/2023

The Human Limit: When Dangerous Heat is Surging
09/7/2023

Purdue research: Ice caps on Mars may reveal planet’s climate history
08/30/2023

NASA Astronaut Andrew Jay (Drew) Feustel to Leave NASA
08/7/2023

Cloud data collected in-situ will be evaluated on the ground at Purdue
08/3/2023

Measuring Decays with Rock Dating Implications
08/1/2023

Experts at Purdue University explain why it's so hot
07/31/2023

Is air quality getting worse?
07/31/2023

Cziczo named KIT International Excellence Fellow
07/19/2023

‘We are damned fools’: scientist who sounded climate alarm in 80s warns of worse to come
07/19/2023

Four EAPS professors chosen by NASA to study lunar science
07/7/2023

Officials urge Hoosiers to limit time outdoors as 'unhealthy' air quality plagues Indiana
06/30/2023

Researchers unearth the mysteries of how Turkey's East Anatolian fault formed
06/30/2023

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Will Have New Home in Houston
06/26/2023

NASA's Perseverance Makes New Discoveries in Mars' Jezero Crater – NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory
06/26/2023

Dr. Laura Pyrak-Nolte awarded Dean's Award for Achievement from University at Buffalo
06/22/2023

Zonta International announces Amelia Earhart Fellowship
06/22/2023

Pebbles from an Asteroid Are about to Be Delivered to Earth, and It’s Totally Awesome
06/15/2023

Erin E Donaghy, PhD candidate, awarded AWG Brunton Award
06/13/2023

Purdue trustees ratify faculty and staff positions, approve resolutions of appreciation and namings
06/9/2023

New research explains what drives Alaska’s enduring and explosive Great Sitkin Volcano
06/8/2023

Solving for climate: Earth’s next top (climate) model
05/30/2023

Cloud computing and blue-sky thinking: An atmospheric scientist illuminates the science of clouds in Earth’s sky and beyond
05/30/2023

Polar ice caps may reveal climate history of Mars
05/18/2023

Mike Sori receives NASA Planetary Science Early Career Award to pursue planetary geophysics
05/18/2023

PERiLS at Purdue aims to save lives by studying tornadoes that form along squall lines
05/15/2023

ABC57's own Maci Tetrick receives Michiana 40 Under 40 award
05/12/2023

Life on Mars: Purdue students at the Mars Desert Research Station
05/1/2023

Researchers from Purdue and Peru team up to study impacts of melting alpine glaciers on mountain groundwater systems
04/27/2023

NASA grant allows Purdue researchers to study and recreate the surface of Mercury
04/24/2023

Rare Isotopes Help Unlock Mysteries in the Argentine Andes
04/24/2023

Faculty promotions at Purdue approved by board
04/14/2023

Bramson honored for Outstanding Teaching
04/14/2023

Study says warming may push more hurricanes toward US coasts
04/13/2023

Jupiter’s moons hide giant subsurface oceans – two upcoming missions are sending spacecraft to see if these moons could support life
04/10/2023

Space weathering and asteroid return sample research earns Lisette Melendez an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
04/7/2023

Landslide research on distant planets earns Santa Lucía Pérez Cortés an NSF Graduate Research Fellowship
04/6/2023

Prof. Andrew Freed awarded Outstanding Teacher Award
03/28/2023

Ukraine's farmlands are affected by the toxic remnants of war
03/21/2023

Rare isotopes help unlock mysteries in the Argentine Andes
03/20/2023

The 8 best hidden impact craters on Earth
03/15/2023

Soils of war: The toxic legacy for Ukraine's breadbasket
03/2/2023

Chasing the storm
02/27/2023

Female researchers study Antarctica's Ancient History
02/21/2023

What has Perseverance found in two years on Mars?
02/21/2023

Purdue EAPS welcomes new faculty member Roger Bryant
02/17/2023

Tricky Faults, Lax Construction and Wobbly Soil Fueled Destruction in Turkey
02/8/2023

PhD Candidate Laura Chaves named in “Top 100 Most Influential Latinos” list
01/31/2023

Caltech Heritage Project: Douglas Schmitt (MS '84, PhD '87), Geoscientist
01/23/2023

Purdue Team of Scientists Return from Trip to Antarctica
01/19/2023

Lifting the Veil
01/17/2023

Geochemist leads an all-woman team onto the ice in Antarctica
01/13/2023

Traveling to the end of the Earth to reveal our planet’s past climate
01/6/2023

Interesting Engineering's top 10 culture stories of 2022
01/3/2023

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