Arizonans were treated to an unusual spectacle Tuesday night as a fireball flashed across the sky around 8:30 p.m.
The American Meteor Society received reports from six states describing the object, which flashed brighter than the full moon before quickly fizzling out.
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Arizona Fireball Visible Across 6 States
The Gila River Indian Community Council in September approved plans to reclaim an 80- to 100-square-mile section of the Gila River and floodplain from invasive salt cedar, or tamarisk.
Removing invasive salt cedar reduces the risk of wildfires, but it also offers a chance to restore native plants and wildlife.
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Gila River Indian Community to Restore River Habitat
As companies like Waymo ramp up tests of their self-driving cars in Phoenix, state and federal officials continue to debate when “good” will be “good enough.”
Now, a report from the RAND Corporation says pumping our brakes and holding out for the perfect automated car is a mistake.
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Waiting For Perfect Self-Driving Cars Could Cost Lives
Researchers have found a genetic pattern in the saguaro and its cousins that could explain why many cactus species resist simple classification.
Plants like the cactus are tricky. Distant relatives can look like twins or evolve similar traits, thanks to phenomena like parallel and convergent evolution, both of which entail species evolving the same traits independently of one another.
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Saguaro Genome Shows Why Many Cactus Species Are Hard To Classify
Humans have long fixated on which mental traits distinguish us from other animals. Now, University of Arizona researchers are asking what our canine companions can tell us about ourselves.
In this feature, I take you behind the scenes of this laboratory and introduce you to some of its remarkable minds, both two- and four-legged.
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Arizona Scientists Study Dog Minds To Better Understand Our Own
