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Arizona Has a Higher Percentage of Global-Warming Believers Than Any Other State

People in Arizona are more likely to believe that global warming is a real thing than people in any other state.It may be easy to believe, since a large portion of the state is essentially a Crock-Pot that cooks humans during the summer, but it may also be difficult to believe, given the conspiracy- ... More >>

Nancy Selover, State Climatologist, Doesn't Really Expect 100-Degree Winters in Phoenix, Despite Republic Article

We had a temporary, though intense, urge to flee the state after reading Michael Clancy's climate-change apocalypse story in today's Arizona Republic. Clancy's story describes how climate change could turn Arizona from the paradise it is today into a scorched, polluted, economically challenged wast ... More >>

Starry Night

Grateful Dead Drummer Mickey Hart Taps the Cosmos

Arizona Dust Storm Report Released Online by National Weather Service; Dissects Cause and Development

Image: National Weather ServiceA Doppler radar image captures the enormity of the July 5 dust storm.​ The July 5 dust storm was among the most "significant" ever seen by National Weather Service experts who have been in the Valley 30 years, according to a new online report.Everything you wante ... More >>

Fate of the Galaxies Bring Gloomy Local Synth-Pop to Club 910

www.facebook.com/pages/Fate-of-the-GalaxiesFate of the Galaxies​The dreamy, danceable, synth-heavy music of Fate of the Galaxies sounds more like something that would come out of early-to-mid '80s England (The Cure, Joy Division) than downtown Phoenix. But that's where the trio that makes up Fate ... More >>

Critics Claim Supreme Master Ching Hai's Followers' Restaurants Featuring Tasty Vegan Fare Front For an Exploitive Movement.

Get Well Moon

Take some steps under the night sky

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

The Age of Stupid: Live from New York

PETA Offers Governor Brewer a Financial Solution; It Wants to Make the Capitol Building Look Like a Beautiful Salad

www.greendaily.com PETA Wants to turn the Arizona State Capitol into a billboard featuring its famous "Lettuce Ladies"​People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals sent Arizona Governor Jan Brewer a letter today, offering to rent space on the outside walls of the state capitol building ... More >>

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

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 >>

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

Dark Sky Telescope Hike

Star Trek

The good news? It’s too cold for creepy-crawlers.

Free Hot Air Balloon Rides at Event Condemning Costs of Global Warming Solutions

The right-leaning American for Prosperity group is bringing its Hot Air Tour to Phoenix on Saturday, offering tethered hot air balloon rides and speeches on the huge costs of trying to solve global warming. Tom Jenney, director of the AFP's Arizona chapt ... More >>

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

Planets in Other Star Systems Photographed

It's a groundbreaking moment in the search for other planets and possibly other life in the universe.

The Stills, & We Are Scientists

Dorrance Planetarium Grand Reopening

Michio Kaku talks invisibility, teleportation and ray guns at Changing Hands Bookstore

Bill McKibben at Changing Hands Bookstore

A Cancer on ASU

Could Bob Pettit have cured cancer in his lifetime? We might never know, thanks to nasty university politics

The Scarlet Letter

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

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

BEST PLACE TO SEE STARS

Starlab Indoor Planetarium

Letters

Letters from the week of January 16, 2003

Romancing the Genome

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

Conundrum

At the same time hundreds of dead gray whales were washing up on beaches, their birthrate was plunging. Theories abound, but little hard data has been gathered to solve this environmental puzzle.

Same Mold Story

Gilbert mom says apartment mold has caused health problems

A Bone to Pick

Lunch with a paleontologist

Working From Scratch

DJ Radar offers a different read of turntable music with the score to 'Antimatter'

'saur Spot

Disney deserves extinction for Dinosaur dialogue

Eclipsed

Arizona asteroid hunters were poised to save the Earth from Armageddon. Then a secret Air Force project took over.

Stargazer's Trek

My Favorite Martians

Hollywood aims its cameras at the Fourth Rock From the Sun

A Cosmic Blunder

When Jim Stevens' chance for astronomic fame came along, he spaced out. Instead, Tom Bopp looked through Stevens' homemade telescope and discovered the comet of the century.

Letters

The Center of the Warm

Nationally renowned ASU scientist Robert Balling thinks environmentalists have exaggerated the threat of global warming. He knows politicians and the press have distorted the climate debate.

FREON EASY

ARIZONA'S REPUBLICAN LEADERS WANT THE STATE TO BUCK FEDERAL LAWS ON CFC PRODUCTION. THAT'S WHAT HAPPENS WHEN WEIRD SCIENCE MIXES WITH WACKY POLITICS.

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