Titan, Saturn's biggest moon, has long been known to contain a dense atmosphere and a frigid environment. Because of these conditions, scientists believed sustaining life on this moon would be difficult, perhaps to the point of being almost impossible. Later on, the Cassini-Huygens Mission, which launched in 1997 and reached Saturn in 2004, revealed concentrations of liquid hydrocarbon lakes covering about 10 percent of Titan's surface. It was this attribute of Titan that excited researcher Dirk Schulze-Makuch when he and his colleagues found an abundance - about 10
Read More
U.Va. students and physicians team up for another year of free kidney screenings
By Merrill Hart | November 5, 2024Saturday’s screening marked the first by KDSAP at Portico Church, near IX Art Park.
U.Va. Health sees a spike in COVID-19 cases
By Emily Horn | September 4, 2023U.Va. Health ended their vaccination requirements in August, and masks were made optional in most hospital areas in early April.
U.Va. Cancer Center harnesses $12 million grant to support opportunities for undergraduates, ongoing research and new center
By Ellen Wu | January 12, 2023The grant provides an opportunity to establish the Center for Systems Analysis of Stress-Adapted Cancer Organelles, which seeks to find the cause of cancer in individual organelles.
