Sciences

Moons Over My Glendale

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 >>

Godzilla Not Found Responsible for Buckled Highway; ADOT Says Landslide Likely Did It

The buckled pavement on U.S. Route 89 outside of Page, which was shown in almost-unbelievable photos released on Wendesday, was likely caused by a landslide.Aside from the highway just looking dangerous, one of the Arizona Department of Transportation's engineers says the guardrail to the side of th ... More >>

Arizona Republicans Proposing "Academic Freedom" (a.k.a. Anti-Evolution) Bill

Here, in the year 2013, lawmakers would like teachers to be allowed to address "weaknesses of existing scientific theories."The language sounds fairly innocuous on its face, until you discover that the language in the proposal -- from a handful of Arizona's Republican lawmakers -- matches that of "A ... More >>

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The Highest Sugar High: Simplest Sugars Spotted Around Earth-like Star

Scientists with the European Southern Observatory have discovered a very simple form of sugar circling a star that's very much like our own sun. ESO researchers made their observations with a radio telescope called the Atacama Large Millimeter Array (ALMA) in Chile. The sugar they found is called ... 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 >>

War of the Worlds

Talkin' 'Bout Resolution

Beam Me Up

Da Bomb

Edward Teller, again

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 >>

Al Gore "Green-iacs" Set Up Shop In The Valley; Take Aim At McCain

www.wikipedia.comThe famed "Manbearpig" pokes fun at fear mongering some folks associate with global warming​Arizona Senator John McCain is the new target of the "green" movement, so much so that Repower America, an offshoot of Al Gore's Alliance For Climate Protection, has opened an office right ... More >>

Digging up Bones

Forensic-mystery authors descend on the Biltmore

Spock and Awe

You know you wanna go. Resistance is futile.

Zombies, Crochet, and The Loveblisters Over the Weekend

Zombie Ball: Undead Dancers and One Freaky Side Show I was halfway to the drug store when I remembered what I was wearing: a suit coat stained with blood and ripped to as though it had been run over. My face was paled like parafin and my eyes were sunken. I was a creature of the night in desperate n ... More >>

"The Hyperbolic Crochet Coral Reef Project" Opening Reception

Darwinfest: Randy Olson

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

National Geographic Live!: Robert Ballard

WeatherFest

Edward O. Wilson

The Art of Science

Artist applies Newton’s laws to his kinetic works

An Inconvenient Truth at Changing Hands Bookstore

Your Brain on Music

Science starts to unravel our natural affinity

Grime and Punishment

Artist makes God's creatures pay for our filthy transgressions

Rock Politics

Paint it green

Fahrenheit 2050

Al Gore takes on the other imminent threat to America

BEST PLACE TO GET METAPHYSICAL

The Astrology Store

BEST PLACE TO ENHANCE YOUR SEXUAL CHEMISTRY

Unique on Central Gay & Lesbian Boutique

Galaxy Fest

Saguaro Astronomy Club hosts star-studded affair

Cup of Joe

Desert Stages dons Dreamcoat

Full Scale Alert

Genetic engineering scheme smells fishy

The Golden Band

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

Trouble in the Sac

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

The Scientists

Blood Red River 1982-1984 (Citadel, Australian import)

Animal Fights

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

Treading in the Ether

Robin Wilson and the Gas Giants have a phantom hit

Letters

Disasteroid

All climax, no plot Armageddon deserves to be sent back to the meteor showers

The Hack and the Quack

The "Phoenix Lights" made Frances Emma Barwood the darling of the global space-alien lobby. And it'stransformed computer geek Jim Dilettoso into a star in the UFO firmament.

The Man Who Loved Lucy

ASU's Donald Johanson redefined our understanding of man's origins. But when he told the world about it in books and on TV, some scientists thought he talked too much.

Dinovideo!

When schlockmeisters rule the Earth, dinosaurs will be movie stars

Letters

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.

GIVE 'EM HAIL, HURRY!

FOR THE ARIZONA THUNDERSTORM CHASERS, THE SKY'S THE LIMIT. AND THEREIN LIES THE RUB.

THE NEW 'SCOPES TRIAL

FOES OF THE MOUNT GRAHAM OBSERVATORY CELEBRATE A KEY VICTORY.

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

COSMIC EVENTS

UOFA TELESCOPES PRODUCE STANGE PROTESTS AND WEIRED OFFICIAL REACTIONS

Dinosaur On My Back

A boy and his Tyrannosaurus rex