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Road improvements at I-10 & SR 87 in 2018.

New Arizona Transportation Institute enlists help from state universities for road issues

Dec 10, 2024 Engineering researchers will work on new surface compounds and ways to reduce highway repair costs
Spacewatch asteroid trackers use the 90 inch Bok telescope atop Kitt Peak to look for wayward space rocks.

Arizona asteroid hunters detected space rock that fell over Russia

Dec 4, 2024 The team used a University of Arizona telescope to track the object to its fiery fate.
International scientists, Alexander Werth, from left, professor Joy Reidenberg and Michael Denk study a male spade-toothed whale ahead of a dissection at Invermay Agricultural Centre, Mosgiel, near Dunedin, New Zealand, Monday, Dec. 2, 2024.

Scientists gather to decode puzzle of the world's rarest whale in 'extraordinary' New Zealand study

Dec 2, 2024 The creature, which washed up dead on a beach on New Zealand's South Island in July, is only the seventh specimen ever found.
Illustration of the Parker Solar Probe flyby of the Sun.

Parker Solar Probe making history six years after launch

Nov 22, 2024 Robotic explorer is the first to sail through the sun's atmosphere.
Bo Yang, UA professor of landscape architecture and urban planning at the Campus Agricultural Center in Tucson, Ariz., on Wednesday, Nov. 13, 2014. Yang is a faculty advisor for the Smart Tree Watering project.

UA tree watering project aims to conserve water and reduce urban heat

Nov 14, 2024 From rainwater harvesting to mulching, researchers find ways to grow resilient trees.
This graphic shows the difference in the appearance of the Moon’s size in its furthest and closest distances to Earth.

Stargazers can see the final supermoon of the year this weekend

Nov 14, 2024 If you miss this supermoon, you won't be able to see the next one until October 2025.
Aspen trees atop Mt. Lemmon.

Autumn among the aspens.

Nov 14, 2024 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Lyse Doucet, chief international correspondent for the BBC, receives the 2024 Zenger Award for Press Freedom from the UA School of Journalism; and Richard Cachor Taylor's talks about his book "Birds of Arizona".
James Webb Space Telescope's MIRI imager shows dust cloud around Vega.

Webb telescope delivers new ideas about Milky Way star Vega

Nov 12, 2024 UA-built camera shows vast, smooth dust disk surrounding the star.
Scientists used a gumball machine filled with toys to test how toddlers learned when they thought something was impossible or just improbable.

Impossible, you say? Try asking a toddler

Nov 7, 2024 Even toddlers can tell an event that is improbable from one that appears impossible.
Federal regulators have finalized the "click to cancel" rule for memberships and subscriptions.

Canceling subscriptions has to be as easy as signing up, the FTC says in a new rule

Oct 18, 2024 Federal regulators receive around 70 complaints a day about charges for subscriptions that are difficult to cancel or that people don't realize they accepted in the first place.
Vikki, from "The Crone Body".

The unspoken beauty of aging in "The Crone Body".

Oct 17, 2024 Also on Arizona Spotlight: : "Bad Art Night" at the Arizona Science Center offers people a chance to explore their curious side; and an asylum seeker shares his welcome to Tucson.
Photo of Europa from NASA's Galileo spacecraft, 1998.

New NASA spacecraft ready to launch toward Jupiter moon Europa

Oct 9, 2024 Europa Clipper will observe surface features that could conceal a vast ocean.
Comb jellies fused together.

A jellyfish with a superpower — it can fuse with another and become one

Oct 8, 2024 Comb jelly fusion has been observed before, but this is the first time that scientists have documented the individuals behaving as one.
Artist's illustration of 2024 PT5.

Earth welcomes temporary new moon

Oct 2, 2024 Scientists say the traveling companion will only stick around for a few weeks.
This image provided by NASA shows an enhanced color view of Pluto’s big moon Charon captured by the New Horizons spacecraft, July 14, 2015.

NASA's Webb telescope detects traces of carbon dioxide on the surface of Pluto's largest moon

Oct 1, 2024 The latest detection is key to studying how Charon and other icy objects in the Kuiper Belt came to be.
Michael Bogan, UA aquatic ecology professor holds up a Mexican amberwing dragonfly at the Santa Cruz River Heritage Project Reach in Tucson, Ariz., on Friday, Sept. 20.

Dragonfly Festival honors Tucson’s Santa Cruz River restoration

Sep 27, 2024 From wastewater to wildlife, how Tucson’s Heritage Project Reach became a thriving river ecosystem.

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