Arizona Science

Biochemical approaches to safe and selective control of mosquito borne disease and why these viruses spread so quickly in high density urban areas.

Biochemical approaches to safe and selective control of mosquito borne disease and why these viruses spread so quickly in high density urban areas.

Climate Change's 'new normal'. Final episode of our limited series featuring speakers from the 2016 UA Science Lecture Series.

Exploring proposed methods for carbon capture. Episode 5 of our limited series featuring speakers from the 2016 UA Science Lecture Series.

Predicting negative health outcomes from climate change. Episode 4 of our limited series featuring speakers from the 2016 UA Science Lecture Series.

How can archaelogical artifacts be best preserved for future generations?

How recent trends in land use and climate warming have exposed vulnerabilities in the mechanisms of ecosystem resilience and revealed new potential.

The second of our periodic "OSIRIS-REx-Countdown to Launch" updates.

How do the activities of ensembles of nerve cells drive our capacity to decide, remember, and navigate?

New technologies are revolutionizing how we study and predict changes in our dynamic oceans.

In 2015, Pope Francis named Tucsonan and U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno the new director of the Vatican Observatory. We discuss the posting.

Human evolution is marked by 2 locomotor transitions. bipedal walking and increased aerobic levels that likely evolved with the hunter/gatherer lifestyle.

Using the orbital interaction between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the planets and to predict the existence of "Plutinos."

How changing the shape of a mirror a thousand times per second results in high resolution imaging of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and extrasolar planets.

Unleashing the hidden wealth of the time and location data from our cell phones to predict behavior and improve health care.

Dante Lauretta, Prof. of Planetary Science at the UofA and Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, discusses the mission.

What can epidemic outbreaks of influenza tell us about original antigenic sin, and how immunity is more complicated that we once thought?

What do Artificial Vision and Autonomous Robots have in common? Mars, of course.

The neuroscience behind eye contact and perception of facial expressions, and the fuller physiological symphony that expresses our mental state.

The Culture, History and Impact of Science in Southern Arizona