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Sinopse
Arizona Science explores the latest scientific research and technological innovations taking place in Southern Arizona and at the University of Arizona. Catch Arizona Science each Friday during Science Friday on NPR 89.1.
Episódios
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Episode 14: Ecosystem Resilience - Navigating Our Tenuous Connection to Nature
05/02/2016 Duração: 06minHow recent trends in land use and climate warming have exposed vulnerabilities in the mechanisms of ecosystem resilience and revealed new potential.
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Episode 13: Countdown to Launch - OSIRIS-REx Ep. II
01/02/2016 Duração: 07minThe second of our periodic "OSIRIS-REx-Countdown to Launch" updates.
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Episode 11: How Our Brain Makes Up its Mind
20/01/2016 Duração: 05minHow do the activities of ensembles of nerve cells drive our capacity to decide, remember, and navigate?
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Episode 12: The Ocean's Role in Climate: Heat and Carbon Uptake in the Anthropocene
20/01/2016 Duração: 05minNew technologies are revolutionizing how we study and predict changes in our dynamic oceans.
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Episode 8: The Pope's Astonomer
23/12/2015 Duração: 04minIn 2015, Pope Francis named Tucsonan and U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno the new director of the Vatican Observatory. We discuss the posting.
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Episode 9: Is Our Current Behavior Tuned to our Evolutionary History?
23/12/2015 Duração: 04minHuman evolution is marked by 2 locomotor transitions. bipedal walking and increased aerobic levels that likely evolved with the hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
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Episode 10: Exploring our Solar System's Past Through Pluto
23/12/2015 Duração: 06minUsing the orbital interaction between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the planets and to predict the existence of "Plutinos."
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Episode 7: Sharper than Hubble
16/12/2015 Duração: 09minHow 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.
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Episode 6: Precise Predictions from Big Data
09/12/2015 Duração: 05minUnleashing the hidden wealth of the time and location data from our cell phones to predict behavior and improve health care.
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Episode 5: Countdown to Launch - OSIRIS-REx
20/11/2015 Duração: 05minDante Lauretta, Prof. of Planetary Science at the UofA and Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, discusses the mission.
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Episode 4: What's New - and Old - about the Flu?
18/11/2015 Duração: 08minWhat can epidemic outbreaks of influenza tell us about original antigenic sin, and how immunity is more complicated that we once thought?
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Episode 3: Laying Eyes on Mars
11/11/2015 Duração: 05minWhat do Artificial Vision and Autonomous Robots have in common? Mars, of course.
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Episode 2: The Eyes as a Window to the Brain
10/11/2015 Duração: 10minThe neuroscience behind eye contact and perception of facial expressions, and the fuller physiological symphony that expresses our mental state.
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Episode 1: Why is Science so Hot in Tucson?
06/11/2015 Duração: 03minThe Culture, History and Impact of Science in Southern Arizona.