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Explore the latest scientific research and technological innovations taking place in Southern Arizona and at the University of Arizona, all in under six minutes.

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Episodes

Episode 136: Pursuing Better Health Through Sweat

Researching wearable devices that can track your stress levels.

Jun 22, 2018•5 min

Episode 135: Research Extends Occupational Safety Concerns to Small Businesses in Tucson

What's in your walls at work?

Jun 15, 2018•5 min

Episode 134: Tracking Progress on Climate Goals

The ocean's central role in the Earth's climate.

Jun 08, 2018•5 min

Episode 133: Exciting New Applications for Photonics

3-D holographic display technology is bringing to mind Star Wars and Princess Leah.

Jun 01, 2018•5 min

Episode 132: Exploring the Milky Way

REPEAT. The UA-led GUSTO mission which will send a balloon to near space to study the Milky Way galaxy.

May 25, 2018•5 min

Episode 131: How Life Experiences Shape Brain Circuitry

REPEAT. Why is it easier for children to learn new information than it is for adults?

May 18, 2018•5 min

Episode 130: Researching Lake Sediment

Using fossils and sedimentary records to understand the geological history of lake basins.

May 11, 2018•5 min

Episode 129: Insights from Insects

REPEAT. Applying knowledge from ants and bees to human engineering, computing, and more.

May 04, 2018•5 min

Episode 128: The History of Infrared

The design and development of the Multiband Imaging Photometer for Spitzer instrument on NASA's infrared Spitzer Space Telescope

Apr 27, 2018•5 min

Episode 127: Seeing the Invisible

Scientists are using micro-optical devices to detect what animals can see, but we cannot.

Apr 20, 2018•5 min

Episode 126: Ripples in Space

Detecting gravitational waves from deep in space.

Apr 13, 2018•5 min

Episode 125: Our Lengthening Life Span is Outpacing the Biology of our Eyes' Lenses

Can we reverse vision loss with artificial lenses?

Apr 06, 2018•5 min

Episode 124: Staying Alive in Space

Astronomer Tod Lauer explains how the process for data imaging has made major technological advances.

Mar 30, 2018•5 min

Episode 123: The Complex Orchestration of Nerves and Muscles for Even Seemingly Simple Movements

REPEAT. How the brain controls muscles to produce movement

Mar 23, 2018•5 min

Episode 122: Imaging the Final Frontier

Astronomer Tod Lauer explains how the process for data imaging has made major technological advances.

Mar 15, 2018•5 min

Episode 121: Generating a New Understanding of How We Inherit Traits From Our Parents

How experiences and stresses we endure are encoded and passed on to our offspring.

Mar 09, 2018•5 min

Episode 120: From Car Mufflers to Human Voice Tracts

Using mathematical models to help understand human speech.

Mar 02, 2018•5 min

Episode 119: There is No Such Thing as Big Data

We preview the final lecture in the 2018 UA College of Science lecture series which deals with modern day computers, AI, machine learning and big data.

Feb 23, 2018•5 min

Episode 118: Machine Influencers and Decision Makers

Machine learning is shaping human lives in both obvious and subtle ways.

Feb 16, 2018•5 min

Episode 117: What Humans Do that Machines Cannot

We preview the fourth lecture in the 2018 UA College of Science lecture series which deals with modern day computers, AI, machine learning and big data.

Feb 09, 2018•5 min

Episode 116: Working Alongside Thinking Machines

We preview the third lecture in the 2018 UA College of Science lecture series which deals with modern day computers, AI, machine learning and big data

Feb 02, 2018•5 min

Episode 115: The Minds of Machines

We preview the second lecture in the 2018 UA College of Science lecture series which deals with modern day computers, AI, machine learning and big data

Jan 26, 2018•5 min

Episode 114: Problem Solving With Algorithms

We preview the first lecture in the 2018 UA College of Science lecture series which deals with modern day computers, AI, machine learning and big data

Jan 19, 2018•5 min

Episode 113: Human Brains Prefer Short Sentence Construction

When it comes to language, your brain prefers efficiency.

Jan 12, 2018•5 min

Episode 112: Studying the Shapes and Colors of Distant Galaxies

NIRCam which is attached to the James Webb Space Telescope. NIRCam will study infrared light and help astronomers learn the age of stars in nearby galaxies

Jan 05, 2018•5 min