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Improving food safety using plant-based sanitizers is at the heart of UA researcher Sadhana Ravishankar's work on foodborne illness.

Episode 138: Fighting Foodborne Illness With New Research

Jul 5, 2018 Plant-based sanitizers may be the key to preventing outbreaks like the one that recently affected romaine lettuce grown in Yuma.
Torsten Falk, PhD is researching low dose ketamine for use in alleviating symptoms in Parkinson's patients.

Episode 137: Developing a New Therapeutic Approach to Treat Parkinson’s Disease

Jun 29, 2018 New research into low-dose ketamine may improve the prognosis for people suffering from Parkinson's
The goal of Ester Sternberg's research into stress-tracking wearable devices is to eventually allow real time tracking of our response to environmental events.

Episode 136: Pursuing Better Health Through Sweat

Jun 21, 2018 Researching wearable devices that can track your stress levels.
Workplaces are often home to a variety of harmful contaminants. Paloma Beamer is hoping her research can help avoid exposure to these environmental hazards.

Episode 135: Research Extends Occupational Safety Concerns to Small Businesses in Tucson

Jun 14, 2018 What's in your walls at work?
The global oceans play a central role in shaping the Earth's climate.

Episode 134: Tracking Progress on Climate Goals

Jun 11, 2018 The ocean's central role in the Earth's climate.
New advances in 3-d holographic display is bringing to mind some classic science fiction.

Episode 133: Exciting New Applications for Photonics

Jun 1, 2018 Moving holographic pictures (think Princess Leah in Star Wars) are quickly becoming a reality.
Exploring the Milky Way

Episode 132: Exploring the Milky Way

May 24, 2018 REPEAT. The UA-led GUSTO mission which will send a balloon to near space to study the Milky Way galaxy.
Dr. Shaowen Bao, Ph.D. discusses his research into brain circuitry on this week's Arizona Science.

Episode 131: How Life Experiences Shape Brain Circuity

May 17, 2018 REPEAT. Why is it easier for children to learn new information than it is for adults?
Priscacara liops, Fossil-Lake, Wyoming, USA.

Episode 130: Researching Lake Sediment

May 10, 2018 Using fossils and sedimentary records to understand the geological history of lake basins.
Applying the wisdom of insects to human engineering.

Episode 129: Insights from Insects

May 3, 2018 REPEAT. Applying knowledge from ants and bees to human engineering, computing, and more.
Looking like a spider's web swirled into a spiral, the galaxy IC 342 presents its delicate pattern of dust in this image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope. Seen in infrared light, the faint starlight gives way to the glowing bright patterns of dust found throughout the galaxy's disk.

Episode 128: The History of Infrared

Apr 30, 2018 The design and development of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer instrument on NASA’s infrared Spitzer Space Telescope
A still from the 1933 film adaptation of H.G. Wells' science fiction novel, The Invisible Man.

Episode 127: Seeing the Invisible

Apr 19, 2018 Scientists are using micro-optical devices to detect what animals can see, but we cannot.
A figure illustrating gravitational wave outputs.

Episode 126: Ripples in Space

Apr 12, 2018 Detecting gravitational waves from deep in space.
Nick Delamere is studying how our every-lengthening life span is outpacing the biology of our lenses.

Episode 125: Our Lengthening Life Span is Outpacing the Biology of our Eyes’ Lenses

Apr 9, 2018 Can we reverse vision loss with artificial lenses?
NASA astronaut Mike Hopkins, Expedition 38 Flight Engineer, participates in the second of two spacewalks.

Episode 124: Staying Alive in Space

Mar 30, 2018 Tucson-based Paragon Space Development Corporation builds, tests and operates life-support systems and thermal control products which must be reliable for astronauts, explorers and unmanned space applications.
New research may lead to the restoration of useful movement in paralyzed individuals.

Episode 123: The Complex Orchestration of Nerves and Muscles for Even Seemingly Simple Movements

Mar 22, 2018 REPEAT. How the brain controls muscles to produce movement.

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