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Students run the Manzo Market every two weeks, where they sell produce from their garden and eggs from the school’s chickens. Photo by Moses Thompson

Feeding Our Future: The Manzo Model for Growing a School Garden

In an age of shrinking education budgets, should school gardens be a line item?

NAU Lab Develops Tool To ID Bats From Guano

A DNA "mini-barcode" is aimed at making it easier to locate bats globally.

Aedes aegypti mosquitoes carry diseases.

Phone App Helps Track Zika, Other Diseases

UA-developed app allows people to report mosquitoes, disease symptoms to public health officials.

OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft, Instruments Healthy

Asteroid mission science instruments send back data from space.

ASU Lab Tracking Cyber Threats On Deep Web, Dark Web

Machine learning and data mining aim to identify patterns to stop attacks before they occur.

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Image of landscape, featuring cloud cover, after monsoon.

Monsoon Rains Ease Arizona Drought Conditions

Climatologists looking for signs of La Niña conditions

UA Collaborative Study Seeks Ways to Slow Cognitive Decline

Universities recruiting adults age 65-90 for computer-based exercises and mild electric stimulation.

eButterfly

The eButterfly project is looking for the public's help in documenting the comings and goings of butterflies...

The Debut of Feeding Our Future

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UA Professor Works to Replace Coral Snake Antivenom

'Race against time' to finish trials before complete shortage.

This image of the dwarf planet was captured from New Horizons on July 13, 2015, about 16 hours before the moment of closest approach. The spacecraft was 766,000 kilometers from the surface.

Lowell Scientist Explains Red Splotch on Pluto’s Moon

Frozen methane builds up at the winter pole, like layers of spray paint.

Asteroid 2016 RB1 flew past Earth on Sept. 7, 2016 going an estimated 18,000 mph.

UA Astronomer Sees Asteroid 2 Days Before It Whizzes by Earth

NASA-funded Sky Lab's observers have ID'd half of known near-Earth objects.

OSIRIS-REx, Cruising, Sends First Photos of Journey

University of Arizona mission's spacecraft is healthy as it speeds at more than 12K mph.

Lightning flashes over a house on Tucson's far east side during a monsoon storm.

So Far, Monsoon 2016 Has Been Normal and Above Most Places

Though when it rains it doesn't pour everywhere, with some areas receiving less.

Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, damaged by SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fire Sept. 1, 2016.

OSIRIS-REx Launch Threatened for a Time by SpaceX Explosion

Quick work by Air Force saved University of Arizona spacecraft.

Tucson-based company plans to offer balloon rides to edge of space.

Tucson's World View Picking up Altitude With NASA Contracts

Each new flight has company building its potential, official says.

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