Date Posted: 2009-04-03
What we know and don’t know about life on Earth was one of many provocative topics discussed during NPR’s “Science Friday” with host Ira Flatow, broadcast live from Arizona State University April 3.
The broadcast ...
Date Posted: 2009-03-30
The North American monsoon is a crucial water source in the Southwest that ASU’s Enrique Vivoni will explore in depth this summer as he begins a large-scale study of the effects of vegetation dynamics during this annual season of wind a...
Date Posted: 2009-03-25
Few tickets remain for the April 6 morning and afternoon sessions of the Origin Symposium at ASU, though several options are in place for students and the public to watch live webcasts and broadcasts, either from their own computers or televisions. P...
Date Posted: 2009-03-24
Spectacular in its depth and breadth of beauty and unequaled in inspirational power, the Grand Canyon is a natural masterpiece. It took a lengthy 6 million years to carve the world-renowned steep-sided chasm but with its one-in-a-million views that a...
Date Posted: 2009-03-19
Quotes from Professor Everett Shock were used in the following LiveScience story.
By Michael Schirber, Special to LiveScience
Editor's Note: This occasional series of articles looks at the vital things in our lives and the chemistry...
Date Posted: 2009-03-09
Arizona State University will be home to one of the world’s most advanced electron microscopes, one that will enable researchers to do work essential to making significant advances in nanoscale aspects of solid state science and materials scien...
Date Posted: 2009-03-09
Science-fiction writer Ray Bradbury based his 1950 short stories collection "The Martian Chronicles" on the fantastic notion that the Red Planet could be colonized, but that idea is not so far-fetched for students at Gilbert's Burk Elementa...
Date Posted: 2009-03-03
About 100 science teachers from Arizona and other states recently went to Mars vicariously and learned how to take their classrooms with them on future trips.
The teachers, whose classes range from kindergarten through grade 12, attended “I...
Date Posted: 2009-01-13
During the conference banquet of the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) winter meeting held Jan. 7, Hwihyun Kim, a graduate student in the School of Earth and Space Exploration at Arizona State University, was named the recipient of the prest...
Date Posted: 2009-01-13
Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, will co-chair the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman. Together they plan to re-energize a national discussion ...
