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Artist's rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope.

UA Gets $20M to Help Build World's Largest Telescope

Dec 16, 2014 Scottsdale businessman's donation will help pay for 8 mirrors for instrument to be installed in Chilean mountains.

How Safe is Your Data on Wireless Networks?

Dec 9, 2014 UA researchers given grant to study widespread problems of Wi-Fi security.

NASA Spacecraft Gets Closer to Pluto; Should It Be Reclassified as a Planet?

Dec 8, 2014 New Horizons is turning its cameras on after a 9-year, 30-billion mile journey from Earth.
Authors of Repose: The Potent Pause, Victoria Shamas, Ph.D. and Jhan Kold.

Repose - The Potent Pause

Nov 6, 2014 Tucson residents' new book recommends lying on your back for a surprising number of mental and physical health benefits.

Experts: Fewer Trees May Result in Healthier Forests

Oct 28, 2014 Scientists say this could increase water supplies for people, help environment in Northern Arizona.
LaTrice Jordan and her aunt Carolyn Green visit the AZPM Studios.

Voices for the Cure with Carolyn Green and LaTrice Jordan

Oct 23, 2014 Hear how family support and regular self-checks and mammograms helped a Tucson woman to survive breast cancer - twice.
Gina Costello and Sherrie Dobson

Voices for the Cure with Sherrie Dobson

Oct 16, 2014 The story of a woman who listened to her body - and her mother - and caught her breast cancer early, now looks back at her experience in a way she never thought she would.

Voices for the Cure with Claudia Arévalo

Oct 10, 2014 A cancer survivor, lawyer and new mom talks with her brother about the hard times ten years ago when she was first diagnosed with breast cancer.
Kim Puete and Jennifer Wigle

Voices for the Cure with Kim Puete and Jennifer Wigle

Oct 2, 2014 Listen to two of the countless women whose lives have been touched by breast cancer share their story of courage, love, hope.

Tucson Streetcar Voices

Jul 31, 2014 AZPM's Vanessa Barchfield joined thousands of riders on its first day for a portrait of the city welcoming this new mode of transportation.
Students from the Instituto Tecnológico de Monterrey Hermosillo campus at the UA bookstore

Soccer-Playing Robots Invade UA

Jul 24, 2014 Group of engineering students from Mexico take their love for sport to another level.

10 Years Since Team of Young Immigrants Beat MIT in Competition

Jul 23, 2014 Doc depicts story of Phoenix high school students who won in an underwater robotic contest; 3 still undocumented.
Mountain lion in the mountains west of Tucson.

Project Hopes to Photograph Jaguars, Ocelots Near Tucson

Jul 18, 2014 Camera traps set up at more than 200 places in mountains surrounding the city.

Global Climate Changing, Tucsonans Working Outdoors Feel Heat

Jul 17, 2014 National Climate Assessment says Southwest is going to get even hotter, drier.

Teenagers Ask Big Questions at Biosphere 2's Summer Academy

Jul 17, 2014 It's a Tuesday afternoon, a group of high school kids are trudging in rubber boots through only mangrove forest in Southern AZ.
OSIRIS-REx is an asteroid sample return mission.

Ukraine Crisis, Other Global Politics Imperil OSIRIS-REx Mission

Jun 30, 2014 Team plans to use rocket which runs on a Russian-made engine; Canadian government funding couldn't be secured.

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