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Students run the Manzo Market every two weeks, where they sell produce from their garden and eggs from the school’s chickens. Photo by Moses Thompson

Feeding Our Future: The Manzo Model for Growing a School Garden

Sep 29, 2016 In an age of shrinking education budgets, should school gardens be a line item?

NAU Lab Develops Tool To ID Bats From Guano

Sep 28, 2016 A DNA "mini-barcode" is aimed at making it easier to locate bats globally.
Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carry diseases.

Phone App Helps Track Zika, Other Diseases

Sep 28, 2016 UA-developed app allows people to report mosquitoes, disease symptoms to public health officials.

OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft, Instruments Healthy

Sep 27, 2016 Asteroid mission science instruments send back data from space.
10/17/12. Rebecca Brukman. Image of landscape, featuring cloud cover, after monsoon.

Monsoon Rains Ease Arizona Drought Conditions

Sep 21, 2016 Climatologists looking for signs of La Niña conditions

ASU Lab Tracking Cyber Threats On Deep Web, Dark Web

Sep 20, 2016 Machine learning and data mining aim to identify patterns to stop attacks before they occur.

UA Collaborative Study Seeks Ways to Slow Cognitive Decline

Sep 20, 2016 Universities recruiting adults age 65-90 for computer-based exercises and mild electric stimulation.
Asteroid 2016 RB1 flew past Earth on Sept. 7, 2016 going an estimated 18,000 mph.

UA Astronomer Sees Asteroid 2 Days Before It Whizzes by Earth

Sep 19, 2016 NASA-funded Sky Lab's observers have ID'd half of known near-Earth objects.

UA Professor Works to Replace Coral Snake Antivenom

Sep 19, 2016 'Race against time' to finish trials before complete shortage.

eButterfly

Sep 16, 2016 The eButterfly project is looking for the public's help in documenting the comings and goings of butterflies...

The Debut of Feeding Our Future

Sep 16, 2016 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Arizona Theatre Company overcomes financial struggle to launch 50th season; Tucson's Chinese community hosts Lunar Festival; eButterfly uses crowd sourcing to help science.
This image of the dwarf planet was captured from New Horizons on July 13, 2015, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 766,000 kilometers from the surface.

Lowell Scientist Explains Red Splotch on Pluto’s Moon

Sep 16, 2016 Frozen methane builds up at the winter pole, like layers of spray paint.

OSIRIS-REx, Cruising, Sends First Photos of Journey

Sep 15, 2016 University of Arizona mission's spacecraft is healthy as it speeds at more than 12K mph.
Lightning flashes over a house on Tucson's far east side during a monsoon storm.

So Far, Monsoon 2016 Has Been Normal and Above Most Places

Sep 15, 2016 Though when it rains it doesn't pour everywhere, with some areas receiving less.
Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, damaged by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fire Sept. 1, 2016.

OSIRIS-REx Launch Threatened for a Time by SpaceX Explosion

Sep 14, 2016 Quick work by Air Force saved University of Arizona spacecraft.

Tucson's Exports Near $2.5 Billion in 2015

Sep 13, 2016 Tech industries helped push local businesses' worldwide trade.

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