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Man alone with Northern Lights

Episode 367: How social isolation can lead to health issues

May 26, 2023 The U-S Surgeon General says loneliness and social isolation can have a devastating impact on mental and physical health.
Navajo Nation family collecting water from local well.

Episode 366: Underrepresented groups in the debate over water resources

May 19, 2023 The University of Arizona is helping communities contribute to decision-making on water resources in the state.
Post-it notes are listed as one strategy for Alzheimer caregivers.

Episode 365: Decoding the mystery of Alzheimer's disease

May 12, 2023 Researchers investigating Alzheimer’s disease are focusing on the hormone estrogen.
Moving a replica Moai statue on Easter Island

Episode 364: Solving the mysteries of Easter Island

May 10, 2023 The huge stone heads on Easter Island in the Pacific have fascinated historians for centuries.
Brown dog tick.

Episode 363: Checking for ticks in Arizona

Apr 28, 2023 Cases of Rocky Mountain spotted fever are on the rise in Arizona.
A cancer cell (white) is attacked by two T cells (red) in this electron micrograph image.

Episode 362: How the body’s immune system defends us against disease

Apr 20, 2023 The immune system is similar to a microscopic security force with commanders that order cells to find and kill infectious intruders.
Fragment from Arizona's Meteor Crater near Flagstaff.

Episode 361: How asteroids can help us understand the history of our Solar System

Apr 7, 2023 The OSIRIS-REx mission is scheduled to return its sample of dust and rocks from the asteroid Bennu in September.
RIng-tailed lemur

Episode 360: Looking at lemur behavior in Madagascar

Mar 24, 2023 Researchers are spending time in Madagascar off the southeast coast of Africa studying family behavior in lemurs.
A collection of glacial ice cores can show a history of climate change.

Episode 359: Tracking climate change in pre-industrial society

Mar 17, 2023 Researchers are trying to reconcile conflicting data on global temperature changes prior to the Industrial Revolution.
New Horizons spacecraft flies by Pluto in 2015

Episode 358: How dark is deep space?

Mar 10, 2023 Scientists are using NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft to measure light that exists beyond the solar system
Downtown Tucson AZ

Episode 357: Investigating methods for heat management in Arizona.

Mar 3, 2023 Researchers are advising city managers planning for the continued effects of changing summer climate.
COVID Omicron test sample, 2021

Episode 356: Updating the origins of the COVID-19 pandemic

Feb 24, 2023 More than three years after the emergence of COVID-19, debate continues about how and where it originated.
Solar eclipse, 2017

Episode 355: Forecasting weather effects in Earth orbit

Feb 17, 2023 The sun’s interaction with the Earth’s atmosphere creates weather on the ground and in space.
Sauropod dinosaurs

Episode 354: How evidence from the past helps us understand climate change in the present.

Feb 10, 2023 Researchers have discovered Earth's oceans were warmer 66 million years ago than they are now.
Computers are basically unchanged since the 1990s except they're smaller and faster, like the ones in cell phones.

Episode 353: Why computers might not be as smart as we think

Feb 3, 2023 Computers are such a part of our everyday lives that we take for granted that they are thinking machines.
Individual life experience allows some peoples' brains to age differently than others.

Episode 352: Solving misconceptions about the aging brain

Jan 27, 2023 Researchers are finding more about what happens to our brains as we get older.

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