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Just a moment...

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By Guoling Li, Feng Han, Cuijin Wang, Ming Jin, Jiajia Lin, Hainan Zhang, Xing Wang, Xinyan Sun, Siyuan Zhang, Shuaishuai Zhang, Jingyan Zhu, Yichao Xu, Yingyan Wang, Yujiao Deng, Fangxin Li, Linyu Shi, Alvin Luk, Ning WANG, Hui Yang, Xiudong Yan, Yiqun Yuan
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Boundless galaxies, but smaller

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By Alvin Luk
| University of Washington Daily Verified
Joy Guo If you’ve ever dreamt of venturing through the vast frontier of outer space to see the moon, the stars, and all the known universe, you’re in luck; the UW department of astronomy’s mobile planetarium is a 20-foot wide, inflatable, walk-in dome that immerses audiences in laptop-projected galaxies. The mobile planetarium is designed to be easily brought to audiences who cannot visit the UW’s brick-and-mortar planetarium in the Physics-Astronomy Building on campus.
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Sorry, I’m going to be allergic that day

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By Alvin Luk
| University of Washington Daily Verified
Cassidy Pearson For over three years, graduate student Fiona Lo has been working on an allergy forecasting model which she hopes will result in more accurate predictions of when people might suffer from allergies. Sites such as weather.com and pollen.com currently offer allergy forecasts based on historical and current pollen levels in a location, but Lo is striving for a better model. “People make forecasts and you can’t tell where they’re getting their information,” Lo said.
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Treatment in a FLASH

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By Alvin Luk
| University of Washington Daily Verified
Grace Sturlaugson Traditionally, radiation therapy cancer treatment, or radiotherapy, has consisted of X-rays or other radiation delivered to a patient over the course of many weeks. A potential new treatment known as FLASH therapy could bypass the limitations of current therapies, possibly drastically reducing the negative side effects of radiotherapy, while also treating patients in a matter of days.
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