Arizona Science Desk
The Classic Maya who lived in Central America more than 1,100 years ago relied on reservoirs to survive their five-month dry season and sporadic droughts. But how did they keep their water clean? The answer could hint at ways to improve water quality and availably under climate change.
Oct. 9, 2023
More and more of us appear to be allergic to more and more things. Medical anthropologist and professor Theresa MacPhail says there are absolutely more allergies now than there were in the past.
Oct. 9, 2023
Scientists have discovered that the animals, through their shells, can help track and understand nuclear contamination ... and maybe more. Researcher Cyler Conrad talked more about it with The Show.
Oct. 6, 2023
Barrow Neurological Institute has received a $16.7 million award from the NIH, its largest grant ever from that agency. The funds will support Barrow as it helps coordinate a new national consortium to study Lou Gehrig’s disease.
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Oct. 5, 2023
NASA says it will extend its New Horizons mission, best known for its photos of Pluto, through 2028 or 2029. The spacecraft will study solar physics. But it may optionally investigate any nearby objects that might be discovered as it traverses the solar system’s icy outer regions.
Oct. 5, 2023
Phoenix is prepared to provide millions in financial incentives to a Wisconsin-based company to grow locally.
Oct. 5, 2023
An international team of researchers, including some from the University of Arizona, studied the brightness of the BlueWalker 3 prototype satellite from AST Space Mobile.
Oct. 4, 2023
The Show spoke with University of Arizona’s Chris Castro, professor of hydrology and atmospheric sciences there, and Dave Goodrich, research hydraulic engineer with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service in Tucson, about the dry monsoon season in Arizona.
Oct. 4, 2023
The menopausal transition can affect our cardiovascular health in ways that can’t be explained by age alone. Dr. Rebecca Thurston is a principal investigator for SWAN, the Study of Women’s Health Across the Nation, and also leads the MSHEART and the MSBRAIN studies, which look at menopause and the cardiovascular/brain connection.
Oct. 4, 2023
A recent study by the National Institutes of Health confirms that hearing aids can help slow cognitive decline in older adults. The NIH looked at nearly 1,000 people between the ages of 70 and 84.
Oct. 2, 2023
The Show spoke with Will Humble, former director of the Arizona Health Department, and now executive director of the Arizona Public Health Association, about what a medical school at Northern Arizona University could mean for Arizona.
Oct. 2, 2023
As Arizona ends one of its driest monsoons on record, many may wonder how climate change is affecting the source of one-third to one-half of the state’s rainfall. A new paper analyzes a Grand Canyon cave formation for clues.
Oct. 2, 2023
Scientists were unsure for decades whether to believe data suggesting that shallow faults near Seattle had ruptured together or in close succession. Now, the University of Arizona-led research of tree rings has confirmed one or more major earthquakes occurred in the region 11 centuries ago this winter.
Oct. 2, 2023
Long-term exposure to air pollution has increasingly been linked to strokes, which affect almost 800,000 Americans each year. Now, a meta-analysis shows short-term exposures pose heightened stroke risks, too.
Sept. 29, 2023
Northern Arizona University has announced it’s designing a new medical school intended to prepare doctors for primary-care work in the state’s rural, underserved and Indigenous communities.
Sept. 29, 2023
Supermoons occur when a full moon reaches perigee, or the nearest point to Earth on its elliptical orbit around our planet.
Sept. 29, 2023
Earlier this month, President Joe Biden declared the COVID-19 pandemic over. But many experts say COVID still isn’t just another seasonal respiratory virus and, even if it were, it would be hard to manage when people are struggling to get, and pay for, vaccines.
Sept. 29, 2023
The Show spoke with Gary Paul Nabhan, acclaimed ethnobotanist, about “Agave Spirits: The Past, Present, and Future of Mezcals” — his new book about everything from tequilas to bacanoras and more.
Sept. 28, 2023
Scientists at the University of Arizona are looking ahead to the space telescopes of the future, which they believe will have a main fundamental difference from what’s been used up until now.
Sept. 28, 2023
The first cowboys in the Americas were likely enslaved Africans, and their own cattle herds may have been brought over with them. So suggests an analysis of 400-year-old cattle DNA from Mexico and the island of Hispaniola.
Sept. 28, 2023
