Once upon a time, they were the rectangular strips of card without which you could not catch a plane. Increasingly, they are ...

Activity codes are optional four digit numerical codes in FAS that may be used to define the activities of a unit in more detail than is available through the account codes. For example: If a ...

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Sometimes, you want to lock your car up but don’t have anywhere to leave your keys. Perhaps you’re going to the beach, taking a run, or heading into battle, and you’d rather not carry them around. A ...

Precision cosmology: the Large Synoptic Survey Telescope will soon be scanning the heavens. (Courtesy: LSST) A powerful numerical code that uses Einstein’s general theory of relativity to describe how ...

Everyone already uses computers in physics. At the very least, students use handheld calculators (I doubt anyone is still using a slide-rule calculator). Also, it's becoming more common to have ...