1. Podcasts
  2. Arizona Science podcast
  3. Arizona Science

Arizona Science

A cancer cell (white) is attacked by two T cells (red) in this electron micrograph image.

Using different methods to investigate cancer

Feb 29, 2024 Researchers studying prostate cancer have found introducing the disease in mice does not always produce accurate results.
Collection of plastic bottles.

Using waste products to create sustainable plastics

Feb 23, 2024 How fossil fuel waste can create new plastics.
An artist’s conception shows habitable-zone exoplanets with similarities to Earth: from left, Kepler-22b, Kepler-69c, Kepler-452b, Kepler-62f and Kepler-186f. Last in line is Earth itself.

Uncovering details about exoplanets.

Feb 16, 2024 The University of Arizona-backed James Webb Space Telescope has opened new insight about planets outside our solar system.
Tree rings tell a story of natural history.

Finding twists in tree ring research.

Feb 8, 2024 Each ring on a tree stump can mark a complete cycle of the seasons, dating back thousands of years.
Quasars are the very bright centers of distant galaxies that are powered by supermassive black holes.

Revealing surprises about black holes.

Feb 1, 2024 Scientists began developing theories about black holes more than a hundred years ago.
Illustration of Kamo'oalewa asteroid accompanying Earth and the Moon in solar orbit.

The urgent search for near-Earth asteroids.

Jan 25, 2024 An astronomer in Europe discovered an asteroid last weekend only hours before it burned up in the atmosphere near Berlin.

Studying the ways humans interact with animals

Jan 18, 2024 Animals are filling a growing need in the field of therapy and service work.

Focusing on prevention in the continuing fight against COVID-19.

Jan 12, 2024 Treatments for COVID-19 are effective, but it’s better if you can avoid getting the coronavirus in the first place.
A log bleached in the sun on Mt. Lemmon, Coronado National Forest.

Survival and recovery of Arizona forests

Jan 4, 2024 University of Arizona forestry expert Don Falk talks about how woodlands might adapt to changes in climate.

Taking Arizona hearing science research to communities in Mexico

Dec 29, 2023 Cochlear implants can open a world of possibilities by restoring a sense of sound and speech.

Insect societies and cyberscience

Dec 15, 2023 The key to better cybersecurity might be found in a beehive.
A display inside the Bryant Bannister Tree-Ring Building on the University of Arizona campus.

How tree ring research is detailing a natural disaster in the Pacific Northwest.

Nov 3, 2023 Divng deep to see what submerged trees can tell us.
Drinking water from the faucet.

Episode 378: Can wastewater recycling help solve Arizona’s water issues?

Aug 25, 2023 Recycling wastewater has proven successful in places as diverse as the International Space Station and Disneyland.
Newborn baby

Episode 377: Finding a connection between music and language development

Aug 18, 2023 People in every culture tend to speak to infants by making language sound more musical.
Rural Arizona sunset.

Episode 376: Using computer algorithms in skin cancer research

Aug 11, 2023 Artificial intelligence is joining the fight against skin cancer.
OSIRIS-REx ejects its sample return container and puts it on a reentry course to Earth.

Episode 375: Preparing to receive the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx

Aug 4, 2023 The University of Arizona-backed OSIRIS-REx spacecraft will return its long-awaited sample of rocks and dust from the asteroid Bennu next month.

Selected Archive Filters

Arizona Science
Back to Top
AZPM is a service of the University of Arizona and our broadcast stations are licensed to the Arizona Board of Regents who hold the trademarks for Arizona Public Media and AZPM. We respectfully acknowledge the University of Arizona is on the land and territories of Indigenous peoples.
The University of Arizona