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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 15: Preserving the Past for the Future

How can archaelogical artifacts be best preserved for future generations?

Feb 12, 2016•5 min

Episode 14: Ecosystem Resilience - Navigating Our Tenuous Connection to Nature

How recent trends in land use and climate warming have exposed vulnerabilities in the mechanisms of ecosystem resilience and revealed new potential.

Feb 05, 2016•6 min

Episode 13: Countdown to Launch - OSIRIS-REx Ep. II

The second of our periodic "OSIRIS-REx-Countdown to Launch" updates.

Feb 01, 2016•8 min

Episode 12: The Ocean's Role in Climate: Heat and Carbon Uptake in the Anthropocene

New technologies are revolutionizing how we study and predict changes in our dynamic oceans.

Jan 20, 2016•5 min

Episode 11: How Our Brain Makes Up its Mind

How do the activities of ensembles of nerve cells drive our capacity to decide, remember, and navigate?

Jan 20, 2016•5 min

Episode 10: Exploring our Solar System's Past Through Pluto

Using the orbital interaction between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the planets and to predict the existence of "Plutinos."

Dec 21, 2015•6 min

Episode 9: Is Our Current Behavior Tuned to our Evolutionary History?

Human evolution is marked by 2 locomotor transitions. bipedal walking and increased aerobic levels that likely evolved with the hunter/gatherer lifestyle.

Dec 21, 2015•4 min

Episode 8: The Pope's Astonomer

In 2015, Pope Francis named Tucsonan and U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno the new director of the Vatican Observatory. We discuss the posting.

Dec 17, 2015•5 min

Episode 7: Sharper than Hubble

How changing the shape of a mirror a thousand times per second results in high resolution imaging of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and extrasolar planets.

Dec 16, 2015•9 min

Episode 6: Precise Predictions from Big Data

Unleashing the hidden wealth of the time and location data from our cell phones to predict behavior and improve health care.

Dec 09, 2015•5 min

Episode 5: Countdown to Launch - OSIRIS-REx

Dante Lauretta, Prof. of Planetary Science at the UofA and Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, discusses the mission.

Nov 20, 2015•5 min