Researchers are developing a class of painkillers that could offer an alternative to opioids, or at least way to taper down their dosage.
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UA Researchers Seek More Targeted Path to Fighting Pain
Bigger, hotter wildfires — and more of them — are becoming the new normal, and a combination of climate change, sub-par fire management and budget limitations are to blame, says an October 2017 National Wildlife Federation report.
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Why U.S. Wildfires Are Bigger, Hotter And More Frequent
The years 2015 and 2016 saw record levels of excess carbon dioxide in the atmosphere, even though human carbon emissions have stabilized in recent years. Now, scientists think they know why.
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NASA: Spike In Atmospheric CO2 Related To El Nino
The Arizona Game and Fish Department is working with the Department of Transportation to safeguard species in the path of the Loop 202 South Mountain Freeway — including the chuckwalla, a large lizard found throughout the desert southwest.
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Chuckwallas Moved Out Of South Mountain Freeway Path
This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three men, but the detection of gravitational waves was the work of a thousand scientists and students — 10 of them from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University in Prescott.
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Embry-Riddle Scientists, Students Contribute to Nobel-Winning Research
