The percentage of federal spending covered by government agencies with satisfactory performance reports rose to its highest level since the reports were mandated nine years ago.

However, this is only 35 percent of $2.587 trillion in spending, according to Mason's economics research and outreach group, the Mercatus Center, which has just released the “Ninth Annual Performance Report Scorecard: Which Federal Agencies Best Inform the Public”. Read More

Shobita Satyapal wants to know how galaxies form and evolve. In her field, she says there is a “sea of questions” surrounding galaxies. Read More

Mason scientist Lev Titarchuk and his former PhD student, Nikolai Shaposhnikov, recently developed a new sophisticated technique to closely measure the mass of black holes.

Their technique, which has been proven on numerous other known black holes, is now being used to detect unusually small black holes. Read More