The Moon.

A rocket is going to crash into the Moon–the accidental experiment will shed light on the physics of impacts in space

March 3, 2022

Scientists will have a rare opportunity to study how natural collisions pummel and scour planetary surfaces.

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Ruddy copper butterflies are sexually dimorphic for color and color vision

Feb. 2, 2022

It seems that reproductive success and sexual dimorphisms for dorsal color and for vision are inexorably interdependent in ruddy copper butterflies.

Change

Welcome to a season of change

Jan. 24, 2022

Nothing is permanent except change, the Greek philosopher Heraclitus famously observed. What was true then is true now, and the times in which we live emphasize that point.

Female rabbi reading a text with two male colleagues standing on either side

Women lead religious groups in many ways—besides the growing number who have been ordained

Jan. 19, 2022

A scholar of gender and US religious history explains how women are trying to make religious communities more inclusive. Women’s ordination is only one piece of this ongoing work.

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Here’s where (and how) you are most likely to catch COVID

Jan. 13, 2022

Researchers have crafted a COVID-19 Aerosol Transmission Estimator for people to discover their risk of catching coronavirus for any given situation.

Marshall Fire Overhead

Those who need help need your help

Jan. 6, 2022

The university has compiled a helpful guide of available resources for those affected by the Marshall Fire.

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Winter solstice dawn from Flagstaff Mountain amphitheater

Jan. 5, 2022

My viewing of winter solstice dawn was quiet, but I had the conviction that this sort of observation reached far back into history, all around the world.

Still from the new 'West Side Story'

‘West Side Story’ may be timeless—but life in gangs today differs drastically from when the Jets and Sharks ruled the streets

Dec. 24, 2021

Gangs have changed in the decades since ‘West Side Story’ first came out—they are deadlier, and their demographics are different—as are the means law enforcement use to control them.

An ornament on a Christmas tree reads, "Happy Hanukkah."

To tree, or not to tree? How Jewish-Christian families navigate the ‘December Dilemma’

Dec. 21, 2021

Figuring out whether to celebrate holidays, and how, is tricky for lots of interfaith families—but thoughtful communication makes a difference

dead tree

A forensic analysis of a dead ponderosa pine

Dec. 19, 2021

Why did that one tree die? An expert is on the case.

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