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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.
Waves generated by Hurricane Irma strike Saint Maarten in the Caribbean, 2017.

Episode 374: Building resilience against climate change

Jul 28, 2023 As the weather around us changes, scientists say we need to be more climate resilient.
Motorsports racing tires made from guayule rubber.

Episode 373: Growing a new source for rubber products

Jul 21, 2023 University of Arizona researchers are helping develop the desert shrub called guayule
Migrants are among those surveyed about health outcomes in Hispanic Health Paradox studies.

Episode 372: Solving the Hispanic Health Paradox

Jul 14, 2023 Researchers have found non-white Hispanics live longer and have better health outcomes than people from other ethnic and cultural groups.
Artist's rendering of the binary star system GG Tauri A.

Episode 371: Exploring solar systems with more than one sun

Jun 30, 2023 Astronomers are discovering our solar system is unique in that it only has one star.
Gamma ray burst from supernova.

Episode 370: Making new discoveries about gamma ray bursts

Jun 23, 2023 Space scientists call gamma ray bursts the most energetic events in the history of the universe.
Patient undergoing electrode visual therapy.

Episode 369: Research that helps our eyes see better

Jun 16, 2023 The University of Arizona is a leader in bio-engineered optical science.
Current spread of valley fever cases in the United States.

Episode 368: The growing concern about valley fever

Jun 2, 2023 The fungal infection known as valley fever is endemic to southwestern states like Arizona and California.

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