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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.

Andromeda Galaxy Double-Nucleus, Painting by Adolf Schaller based on Hubble Space Telescope observations by Tod Lauer.

Episode 122: Imaging the Final Frontier

Mar 15, 2018 Astronomer Tod Lauer explains how the process for data imaging has made major technological advances.

Keith A. Maggert's work is aimed at discovering how experiences, environmental toxins, or stresses that we encounter can be encoded and passed on to our offspring.

Episode 121: Generating a New Understanding of How We Inherit Traits From Our Parents

Mar 8, 2018 How experiences and stresses we endure are encoded and passed on to our offspring.

Arizona Science Special: Humans, Data and Machines Roundtable Discussion

Mar 2, 2018 Joaquin Ruiz, UA Dean of the College of Science, leads a group conversation with speakers from the 2018 UA Science Lecture Series.

Understanding the mathematics of human speech

Episode 120: From Car Mufflers to Human Voice Tracts

Mar 1, 2018 Using mathematical models to help understand human speech.

Vincent J. Del Casino Jr., Vice President, Academic Initiatives and Student Success and Professor, School of Geography and Development, presents the last in a series of six lectures on artificial intelligence (AI).

Episode 119: There is No Such Thing as Big Data

Feb 22, 2018 We preview the final lecture in the 2018 UA College of Science lecture series which deals with modern day computers, AI, machine learning and big data.

Jane Bambauer, Professor of Law, University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law, presents the fifth in a series of six lectures on artificial intelligence (AI).

Episode 118: Machine Influencers and Decision Makers

Feb 15, 2018 We preview the fifth lecture in the 2018 UA College of Science lecture series which deals with modern day computers, AI, machine learning and big data.

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