Arizona Science Desk
Waymo One is rolling out curbside pickup and dropoff to select riders at Sky Harbor Airport in Phoenix during overnight hours.
Dec. 14, 2023
Wildfire frequency and severity are rising under climate change and, with them, health concerns about the potentially harmful contents of smoke and soot. New research expands those worries.
Dec. 13, 2023
From adhesives to airplane parts, spider-web silks have long inspired inventors with their featherweight strength and flexibility. One day, we might even broadcast through microphones made of the stuff.
Dec. 13, 2023
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, known as TSMC, and the union representing workers helping to build the massive chip manufacturing facility last week announced they’d reached a deal. It covers issues ranging from safety to training, and aims to help the sides work together, after some ongoing disputes.
Dec. 12, 2023
The United Nations Environmental Program has released a report examining investments, subsidies and other financial transactions that can affect nature.
Dec. 12, 2023
Medicare is meant to keep healthcare affordable for seniors. But new evidence suggests Part D participants are overpaying for drugs because private insurers are artificially inflating costs.
Dec. 11, 2023
Racial and ethnic underrepresentation remains widespread in clinical studies. Now, a new paper take a fresh look at how the problem affects research into gynecologic cancers, which affect more than 25,000 Arizonans.
Dec. 11, 2023
An NIH program launched three years ago to improve COVID diagnostics has awarded $9 million to support the first Indigenous-led Tribal Data Repository in the U.S. ASU will play a key role in tribal community engagement.
Dec. 7, 2023
The ASU-led mission to the metal-rich asteroid Psyche passed a key milestone this week: The university’s imager captured its first pictures – a moment known as “first light.” The test of the dual-camera instrument is the latest in a series of successful data and sensor checks.
Dec. 6, 2023
Some of the tall Aleppo pines dotting the Valley today started as live Christmas trees that residents planted in their yards in the ’50s, ’60s and ’70s. Now thanks to heat, drought, age and landscaping changes, many of these trees are coming down.
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Dec. 6, 2023
Maternity programs at St. Joseph’s Hospital and Medical Center in Phoenix and TMC Healthcare in Tucson were both ranked “high performing" in an analysis by U.S. News and World Report.
Dec. 5, 2023
The Show spoke with Hannah Seo, a freelance science journalist, about why she thinks you should include everyone into your holiday festivities.
Dec. 5, 2023
After half a century of efforts to clean up air quality in the U.S., new research finds the toll from wildfires may be overwhelming health gains in the West.
Dec. 4, 2023
Much of the warming was experienced in an El Niño pattern that is set to continue into the new year.
Dec. 4, 2023
New data from federal scientists suggests there may be way more lithium underneath the Salton Sea in Southern California than previously thought.
Dec. 4, 2023
Many of Dr. Debra Wickman's patients come to her because of pain.
Dec. 4, 2023
The U.S. government is halting a long disputed method of killing coyotes in the Southwest using so-called "cyanide bombs."
Dec. 4, 2023
Most studies of cryptocurrency’s environmental impact focus on power generation. But new calculations reveal a staggering and growing impact on water usage as well.
Dec. 4, 2023
Scientists have discovered six planets moving in harmonic rhythm around a bright star 100 light years away. Numerous satellites and telescopes contributed to the research, including the F. L. Whipple Observatory atop Mount Hopkins in southern Arizona.
Dec. 4, 2023
Dogs in over a dozen states have been diagnosed with a respiratory illness, and no one knows much about it. Symptoms of the illness include lethargy, loss of appetite and coughing.
Dec. 1, 2023
