Universities venture into new territory: funding start-ups
Universities across the country have developed entrepreneurship programs aimed at encouraging students and faculty to turn ideas into actual companies. Now, an increasing number of them also are giving money to help those businesses get started.
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The life of a star explained in 1 minute
The iron in our blood, the silicon in your computer, the oxygen that we breath — all of those elements were synthesized inside a star. UC Santa Cruz astrophysicist Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz walks us through the process from a star's beginning to its death.