AZPM

Arizona Science

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From astronomy to cancer research and beyond, explore the latest scientific and technological innovations taking place in Arizona.

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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.

What's New - and Old - about the Flu? 18.11.2015 8:36

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

Laying Eyes on Mars 11.11.2015 5:24

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

The Eyes as a Window to the Brain 10.11.2015 10:20

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

Why is Science so Hot in Tucson? 06.11.2015 3:58

The Culture, History and Impact of Science in Southern Arizona