Nature resists simple summaries, as Arizona’s patchwork precipitation proved once again this monsoon season.
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2016 Monsoon Brought Patchwork Precipitation To Arizona
NASA’s recent news that the Hubble Space Telescope had spotted liquid water plumes on Jupiter’s moon Europa has raised interest in a planned mission that will study the icy world to confirm the ocean’s presence and search for signs of life.
An instrument being built by Arizona State University will show experts where to start looking.
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ASU Thermal Camera Will Guide Europa Mission’s Search For Water, Life
An Arizona State University program this semester will use veterans to archive digital archaeological data from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
The four veterans will train and work at ASU’s Center for Digital Antiquity, which houses the nation’s largest archive of digital archaeological data.
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ASU Taps Veterans To Archive For US’s Largest Digital Archaeology Database
A 200-mile lightning flash and another flash lasting nearly eight seconds have redefined experts’ notions of what is possible for such events.
The new data prompted a World Meteorological Organization committee to recommend revising the definition of lightning discharges.
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Record-Breaking Lightning Flashes Help Change Definition Of Lightning Events
The time to fix a security flaw is before it’s exploited — just ask the Clinton campaign or the World Anti-Doping Agency. So Arizona State University’s Paulo Shakarian tracks cyber threats to their origins: In the hard-to-access deep web and the secretive dark web.
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ASU Lab Tracking Cyber Threats On Deep Web, Dark Web