Life Sciences

Amoeba's Vinyl Vault: Treasure Trove or Legal Sticky Wicket

By Brett Koshkin While the corpses of corporate music retail chains litter strip malls where outlets like Tower Records and Blockbuster Music once stood, Amoeba Music is an independent juggernaut with three California-based stores the size of supermarkets. They've been a celebrated shopping destina ... More >>

A Peek Into The Momofuku Kitchen Laboratory

Reuter's has an interesting video that gives viewers a look into the world of Momofuku's kitchen test lab, where chefs and microbiologists team up to create novel tastes and textures using humble common bacteria in interesting ways. Momofuku's chef David Chang is pretty adamant about his desire to u ... More >>

Our 10 Favorite Martian Songs in Honor of Curiosity

Ever since Curiosity survived the seven minutes of terror and landed on Mars last Sunday, we continue to be fascinated by the rover's pictures. Last week the device, which looks like it could be Wall-E's cousin, took a cool black and white panoramic shot of the red planet. The environment kind of lo ... More >>

If You Host an Easter Egg Hunt This Weekend, Your Kids Will Get Bit By Rattlesnakes (Maybe)

Happy Easter!​The Arizona Herpetological Society has some suggestions on how to host the lamest Easter egg hunt ever: don't "hide" the eggs where kids can't see them.The problem: rattlesnakes.The AHS is warning Valley residents about the dangers of Easter egg hunts in a region infested with slithe ... More >>

Cheaters Beware: Phoenix Lab Uses DNA to Prove Infidelity Via-Stains on Underwear

www.chichi2121.com​If you happen to be cheating on your significant other, you better be prepared to hide, wash, or burn your undies after the deed is done, thanks to a Phoenix laboratory that's offering its DNA testing services to people who suspect they're being cheated on.For about $100, ... More >>

ASU Professor Tells British UFO Conference that Aliens May Already be Among Us

www.switchburn.com​ There is a conference going on right now in London, where some of the world's leading scientists are discussing one thing: aliens. Of the space variety, not the ones Joe Arpaio herds into his jails like cattle.Speaking at the London Royal Society conference is Arizona St ... More >>

Caffiend: Killer Buzz

In the beginning, there was Red Bull, and it was said that Red Bull "gives you wings." At its stateside genesis in 1997, the little silver can that could stood alone on the frontier of a new market, soon-to-be-borne of the "energy drink" craze. Now energy drinks have gone forth and multiplied, to th ... More >>

Newfangled Contraption

Fresh work about rogue AI tickles our collective surprise tooth

Pathetic Sex Between Weirdo Losers

Sound fun? Wait. There’s more.

ASU "Leading the Pack," Says Magazine, Even Though State's Money Woes are Slicing Programs

​ Arizona State University is "leading the pack in improvements and innovative changes," according to the latest issue of U.S. News and World Report magazine. Though ASU was only as the 121st best national university -- same ranking as last year -- the Valley institution ranked fifth out of ... More >>

New Works Festival: Cloning Peter

Two ASU Scientists Nominated for Coveted World Technology Award For Coming Up With "Green" Jet-Fuel Alternative

Two scientists at Arizona State University's polytechnic campus may have found a slimy green alternative to the world's oil crisis: Algae. No joke. Scientists Qiang Hu and Milton Sommerfeld can convert algae into jet fuel -- a discovery that may just land them a World Technology Award tomorrow. ... More >>

Jennifer Ginther, Grad Student from NAU, Named Student Regent by Governor

Governor Jan Brewer has appointed a new student representative to the Arizona Board of Regents. Jennifer Ginther, a graduate student in biology at Northern Arizona University, comes with an impressive resume. We can't tell you how she'll do as a regent, but the 4.0 student knows a thing or two abou ... More >>

Things Are Clearing Up at The Japanese Friendship Garden

Jonathan McNamaraThe Koi Pond at the Japanese Friendship Garden If you've been to the Ro Ho En Japanese Friendship Garden lately you may have noticed how green it is. No, we're not talking about the vegetation. We're referring to the water in the koi pond. Japanese gardens, even those in Japan, ar ... More >>

Darwinfest: Randy Olson

Darwinfest: Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy

Darwinfest: Flock of Dodos: The Evolution-Intelligent Design Circus

National Geographic Live!: "Deep Ancestry: Inside the Genographic Project"

Edward O. Wilson

Gross Out: Unsanitary Sanitized Fish at Steamers

Werner Herzog treks to Antarctica in Encounters at the End of the World

When Fossils Attack

And we’re not talking about Ron Paul

Your Brain on Music

Science starts to unravel our natural affinity

Grime and Punishment

Artist makes God's creatures pay for our filthy transgressions

The Scarlet Letter

Sophie Fisher is autistic. Her mother isn't so sure she wants you to know

Forbidden Fruit

Inbreeding among polygamists along the Arizona-Utah border is producing a caste of severely retarded and deformed children

Mold Attacks!

If Gilbert school officials had played straight, Mesquite Junior High kids and teachers would've run for their lives.

Up the Down Staircase

A New Times writer tells one family's unique story about life with Down Syndrome, and then shares her own

Indian Givers

The Havasupai trusted the white man to help with a diabetes epidemic. Instead, ASU tricked them into bleeding for academia.

'Saur Subjects

Science Center digs up dino bones

Full Scale Alert

Genetic engineering scheme smells fishy

Romancing the Genome

The love story that may spark Arizona's New Economy.

Crying Whale

Environmental groups sent out a worldwide call to save the gray whale from a Mexican salt plant. They got millions of dollars and thousands of new members. But scientists found no threat to the whales.

The Golden Band

Genetic research and rock 'n' roll cross paths in the music of Austin's American Analog Set

Giving Us Crap

Farmers say it's nourishing. Critics say it's noxious. Either way, tons of California sewage is headed to Arizona.

Trouble in the Sac

Nevada's wastewater is causing sex problems in fish. But will Arizona get screwed by the solution?

Race Abater

Geneticist has big news for bigots: Biology doesn't recognize race

Same Mold Story

Gilbert mom says apartment mold has caused health problems

Animal Fights

'They're fighting for their careers, for their reputations, for their money.'

A Clone Is Born

Schwarzenegger reproduces the best of all his movies with a conceptual twist in The 6th Day

'saur Spot

Disney deserves extinction for Dinosaur dialogue

Wildlife Disservice

Someone is shooting endangered Mexican gray wolves. The government's flawed reintroduction program helped put them in the crosshairs.

Dinovideo!

When schlockmeisters rule the Earth, dinosaurs will be movie stars

Snaking Away

Researchers from around the world are paid virtually nothing to work long hours week after week in primitive mountain isolation. Their quest? The mysterious rattlesnake called ridgenose.

We're Number Two!

A PLAGUE ON YOUR HOUSELAWSUIT POINTS UP THE DANGERS OF THE FUNGUS AMONG US

LANGUAGE HAPPENS

WHAT WAS ON EARLY MAN'S MIND? HIS TOOLS, BUT HE COULDN'T BRING HIMSELF TO TALK ABOUT IT.

MICHAEL KIEFERSTANCES WITH WOLVESFORMER ECO-TERRORIST DAVE FOREMAN UNLEASHES A PLAN TO LET LOBOS LOOSE IN THE WILDERNESS

DESPERATELY SEEKING SASQUATCHTHESE SCIENTISTS SPEND THEIR LIVES CHASING ANIMALS THEY ONLY THINK EXIST

Dinosaur On My Back

A boy and his Tyrannosaurus rex