Lots of us look up at the night sky with wonderment, asking how humans are able to explore the universe. Tracy Drain, a flight systems engineer at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, understands that.
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A Republican-backed bill in the state Legislature would ban the practice of geoengineering, which has the potential to manage the sun’s intensity and other atmospheric conditions.
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Throwing a baseball places an extraordinary amount of stress on the human elbow. Increasingly, the inflammation is a precursor to ulnar collateral ligament surgery, which is sometimes called Tommy John surgery.
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The endangered desert pupfish will be released into Lake Ayer on Wednesday by Arizona Game and Fish. The species has spent years living in the Boyce Thompson Arboretum.
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Oregon Health & Science University researchers are developing a promising new blood test that could provide a way for more patients to have their pancreatic cancer caught earlier.
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The Arizona wine industry has been steadily growing for the last two decades or so. But today, they’re facing the same threat that most of the world’s winemaking regions are staring down: climate change.
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A group of researchers from Arizona State University and University of Arizona have published their work on a new treatment that may prevent the spread of cancer cells.
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Advocates say some young people end up alone trying to figure out how to continue from where their pediatric care left off, but many just end up without the medical attention they need.
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Resolution Copper wants to dig up a massive amount of copper ore beneath Oak Flat inside the Tonto National Forest. And by doing so, a site that some Apaches consider sacred may be destroyed.
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While Resolution Copper is taking a proactive approach to meet its tremendous water needs, their actions may still have a lasting and severe impact on the local hydrological landscape around Oak Flat.
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A nonprofit environmental conservation group in southern Arizona has had to stop some of its work because it lost more than a million federal dollars.
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Breast and colon cancer screenings are back on track following COVID-19-related declines. That's good news because these preventative screenings are life-saving.
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Researchers at the University of Arizona have published a study highlighting how vocal changes in the zebra finch songbirds may help in understanding neurodegenerative disorders in people.