Sciences

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 >>

Numerical Instability

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 >>

Solar Flair

High Science: Synthetic Marijuana Is Legal, and It Might Get You High -- But Is It Safe?

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 >>

Global Warming Threatens Santa's Workshop and Reindeer, Expert Says

Global warming threatens to sink Santa's workshop and push reindeer toward extinction, a renowned climatologist tells New Times. As we've read in recent months, climate change could melt the ice cap at the North Pole during the summer in 10 to 20 years, according to some estimates. Scientists aren't ... More >>

EPA Sued for Failing to Act on Phoenix Area's Pollution Plan

Lisa Jackson, the head of the federal Environmental Protection Agency, has been so focused on saving the world from America's greenhouse gases that she seems to have forgetten about serious pollution in the Phoenix area. Jackson is in Copenhagen this week for the international talks on carbon r ... 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.

WNBA Western Conference Semifinals, Game 2: San Antonio Silver Stars vs. Phoenix Mercury

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 >>

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 >>

Crime Lab at Arizona Department of Public Safety Lands Lofty Accreditation as it Seeks State Funding

There's nothing like knowing something is worth an expensive pricetag -- as long as you've got little choice but to pay for it. Days after a prominent Arizona Republic story about how lawmakers are scrambling to find funds for the cash-poor Arizona Department of Public Safety crime lab, the age ... More >>

Darwinfest: Sizzle: A Global Warming Comedy

Chemtrails: Strong Competitor for Dumbest Conspiracy Theory Ever

Most conspiracy theories are so ridiculous, it's hard to choose which are the least plausible or which faces the higher mountain of opposing evidence. Some seem within the realm of the possible, such as the ones that surround the assassination of JFK, the Pearl Harbor attack or the murder of Pr ... More >>

Michael Crichton Leaves Legacy of Kickass Books

Gross Out: Unsanitary Sanitized Fish at Steamers

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

Happy Death Day! 2012 hangs a date on our demise.

SMoCA’s "Pushing Paint Around" is splashy testament to the art of painting

University of Arizona's Mars Mission Videos on iTunes

Futuristic Hit

Concert Review: Kelly Clarkson at the Colosseum at Caesars Palace, November 14, 2025

Bad News With Al

Color Theory

Paint it white

Forbidden Fruit

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

Quantum Bleep

Inward to the universe

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

Going for Baroque

ASU displays rare works

Hold On a Minute!

Ecologists are still trying to spin their phony 'Save the Whale' campaign

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.

Giving Us Crap

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

Resurrection

After a 70-year hiatus and a confrontation with the world, the Makah tribe resumes its communion with the gray whale

Russian Roulette

The Western Pacific gray whale, once thought extinct, clings to life in a remote Siberian sea. Biologists fear their research is providing cover for massive oil drilling that threatens to wipe out this lost tribe once and for all.

Race Abater

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

'Toonsmiths

Boyhood passions and local music luminaries collide in Robin Wilson's new concept album-cum-animated series

Committing the Truth

After years of retaliation because she was a whistleblower, a leading Alzheimer's researcher can vouch for how poorly Arizona law protects university employees who report waste or fraud

Softly Into That Good Nitrous

Why sales of pressurized laughing gas are sky high in Arizona

Wildlife Disservice

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

Going to the Well Too Often

Should boom towns like Prescott let little things like water shortages keep them from growing?

A Sad Cometary

Deep Impact is a feel-good disaster movie

Letters

We're Number Two!

UP AND ATOM

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.