News tagged with arizona
Utah and Arizona report swine flu-related deaths
May 21, 2009 |
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(AP) -- Utah officials reported the state's first death associated with swine flu and Arizona recorded that state's third victim, pushing the national death toll to 10 people.
Close relationships can perpetuate individual health problems
Mar 11, 2009 |
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Human problems rarely occur in a vacuum, but persist as part of ongoing social interaction in which causes and effects are interwoven. One person's behavior can set the stage for what another does. A new study in the journal ...
State-of-the-art electron microscope promises to aid major research advances
Mar 09, 2009 |
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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 ...
How moths key into the scent of a flower
Mar 05, 2009 |
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Moths need just the essence of a flower's scent to identify it, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Staying cool under stress: ASU researchers investigate strategies
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Mar 05, 2009 |
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Researchers at Arizona State University show that having a more flexible approach to resolving an acute conflict interaction results in more frustration and anger. These are among the findings that Danielle Roubinov, an ASU ...
New Forensic Method Aims to Predict What a Person Looks Like from DNA Sample
Mar 02, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- A University of Arizona research team recently completed a study looking at the DNA blueprint of almost 1,000 individuals and comparing that to detailed measurements of their hair, skin and ...
Scientists Find Asteroids Are Missing, and Possibly Why
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 25, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The patterns of missing asteroids are like the footprints of wandering giant planets preserved in the asteroid belt.
Adjustable Fluidic Lenses for Eyesight Correction Applications
Feb 24, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Arizona have created a fluid-based opthalmic lens in which the amount of fluid can be constantly adjusted to provide customized eye correction. The lens may one day be incorporated ...
How Volvox got its groove
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Feb 19, 2009 |
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Some algae have been hanging together rather than going it alone much longer than previously thought, according to new research.
Earthquake engineering research aims to save lives, billions of dollars
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 17, 2009 |
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The 6.7 magnitude earthquake that struck the Los Angeles community of Northridge at 4:30 a.m. on Jan. 17, 1994, killed 57 people, injured more than 5,000, and caused an estimated $20 billion in damage, making it the costliest ...
Cosmologist Paul Davies explores notion of 'alien' life on Earth
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 15, 2009 |
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Astrobiologists have often pondered "life as we do not know it" in the context of extraterrestrial life, says Paul Davies, an internationally acclaimed theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University. "But," ...
Researchers investigate bird's 'carotenoid circle of life'
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Feb 13, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- “What you see is what you get” often is the mantra in the highly competitive life of birds, as they use brilliant displays of color to woo females for mating. Now researchers are finding that ...
Plants take a hike as temperatures rise
Feb 10, 2009 |
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Plants are flowering at higher elevations in Arizona's Santa Catalina Mountains as summer temperatures rise, according to new research from The University of Arizona in Tucson.
Astronomers Will Train Big MMT Telescope on Moon During 2009 Impact
Space & Earth / Space Exploration
Feb 06, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Astronomers will use the powerful University of Arizona/Smithsonian MMT Observatory on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to search for lunar water ice when NASA fires a 2-ton rocket into a polar crater ...
Defectors take the car, cooperators go by bus
Feb 03, 2009 |
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National economies are driven by the automobile, even during an economic downturn. Every day, hundreds of millions of people take their cars to visit remote places, to commute, and to reach the supermarket.
