Arizona Science

Immune to Aging 19.05.2016 5:14 ↓

How and why our immune systems become less effective as we get older

A Common Brain Parasite May Help Treat Brain Disorders 13.05.2016 5:14 ↓

How a common parasite might help in treating brain disorders

The Role of Microorganisms in Making Life Livable on Planet Earth 06.05.2016 6:11 ↓

Microorganisms living both in our bodies and in the earth's crust keep our bodies and our planet healthy

Fossil Hunting in One of the Most Age Diverse Regions of Eastern Africa 29.04.2016 5:07 ↓

Earlier this year, UA Professor Jay Quade on travelled to Ethiopia to look for early humanoid fossils

International Cooperation Among Scientists to Meet Major Global Challenges 22.04.2016 8:01 ↓

John Hildebrand, the Foreign Secretary of the National Academy of Science

Understanding the Secrets of the Universe 14.04.2016 5:13 ↓

Elliot Chue discusses the Large Hadron Collider

Astronomers Search for Planets Outside our Solar System 07.04.2016 3:44 ↓

What might exist outside our solar system?

Gravitational Waves 31.03.2016 3:43 ↓

Advances in hydroponic crop production for extreme and diverse environments.

Gravitational Waves 24.03.2016 6:37 ↓

Gravitational Waves were recently detected from two merging black holes.

Earth Transformed 17.03.2016 58:57 ↓

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 Diseases 11.03.2016 6:09 ↓

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

The Changing Earth: It's Not Just A New Normal 04.03.2016 6:15 ↓

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

Carbon Sequestration: Can We Afford It? 23.02.2016 6:11 ↓

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

Climate Change and Human Health: Impacts and Pathways to Resilience 16.02.2016 6:27 ↓

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

Preserving the Past for the Future 12.02.2016 5:17 ↓

How can archaelogical artifacts be best preserved for future generations?

Ecosystem Resilience - Navigating Our Tenuous Connection to Nature 05.02.2016 6:21 ↓

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

Countdown to Launch - OSIRIS-REx Ep. II 01.02.2016 7:37 ↓

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

How Our Brain Makes Up its Mind 20.01.2016 5:26 ↓

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

The Ocean's Role in Climate: Heat and Carbon Uptake in the Anthropocene 20.01.2016 5:27 ↓

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

The Pope's Astonomer 23.12.2015 4:36 ↓

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

Is Our Current Behavior Tuned to our Evolutionary History? 23.12.2015 4:28 ↓

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

Exploring our Solar System's Past Through Pluto 23.12.2015 6:15 ↓

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

Sharper than Hubble 16.12.2015 9:16 ↓

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.

Precise Predictions from Big Data 09.12.2015 5:17 ↓

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

Countdown to Launch - OSIRIS-REx 20.11.2015 5:16 ↓

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