Sara Hammond

NASA has selected the University of Arizona and affiliate researchers to put a telescope on a balloon to view the Milky Way.

The bombardier beetle is one of five fauna vying for top prize in a genome sequencing competition. It’s up against a dancing dingo, pink pigeon, sea slug and pit viper.

Tucson planetary science researchers will help NASA plan future robotic and human missions to the moon and beyond. From the Arizona Science Desk, Sara Hammond reports.

The final event of an upcoming conference will see attendees sit down to a gourmet meal made entirely from food produced in controlled environments.

Arizona researchers have found a way to fight soil toxins that can infect corn crops and cause illness in people who consume them. The research gives corn its own defense mechanism.

Boston-based author Nathalia Holt spent years tracking down and interviewing many of the women who worked at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California, performing the mathematical computations that helped send rockets to the moon, Mars and beyond.

NASA’s announcement of planets outside our solar system that could be like Earth have scientists in Tucson excited about the possibilities for life.

Michelle Thompson earned her doctorate in planetary science at the University of Arizona studying how materials weather on the surface of airless bodies such as the moon and asteroids.

When mom said, “Eat lots of fruits and vegetables,” she may not have known that what fuels our bodies may also help fight disease. That connection will be the subject of a conference this week at the University of Arizona, attracting researchers and clinicians from across the country.

President Donald Trump campaigned last year on promises to relax or eliminate environmental protections. In Arizona, that worries scientists and other advocates, especially those who want government action on climate change.