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What does the future of space medicine look like?

Pitt distinguished professor Bill Wagner discussed how new materials and techniques could change medical care in space.

Making batteries takes a lot of lithium. Some of it could come from wastewater.

Water from Marcellus shale gas wells could supply up to 40% of U.S. demand for the metal, according to a new Pitt study.

How nanotubes, nanoparticles and antibodies are used to detect tiny amounts of fentanyl

This Pitt-developed sensor is portable, affordable and orders of magnitude more sensitive than the next-best thing.

The Conceptual Foundations program takes a philosophical look at medicine

This rapidly growing certificate program in the Department of History and Philosophy of Science has students tackling medical questions in a new way.

NSF funding will help Pitt researchers track real-time water quality with satellites

The new award to the Pittsburgh Water Collaboratory will give agencies and community organizations more insight into local water quality.

New research shows migrating neurons may play important roles in development

Findings from the lab of Shawn Sorrells suggest the movement of immature cells is related to periods of neuroplasticity when the brain is especially receptive to changes and adaptation.

Rachel Bezanson was on a team of astronomers that detected a black hole in the early universe

Their findings on the supermassive red mass, which combined James Webb Space Telescope observations with gravitational lensing, were published in Nature.

Pitt research on small galaxies was published in Nature

Their findings from James Webb Space Telescope observations show they may be responsible for opening the universe to light.

Solved at Pitt: What are Saturn’s rings made of?

Pitt researchers have made many leaps in their fields — here's how Professor James Keeler settled the debate about the planet at the University's own Allegheny Observatory.

Pitt has joined the Keystone Space Collaborative to bolster out-of-this-world research

The move is just the latest effort to connect University researchers to the region’s space science ecosystem.