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3 days ago | azpm.org | Tony Perkins

People coping with respiratory disorders are in line to benefit from research being promoted at the University of Arizona’s Tech Launch department. A bio-tech startup called Aspiro Therapeutics is the latest company working with the UA to develop inventive solutions for health-related issues. College of Medicine researcher Julie Ledford is part of the team looking at a new treatment regime for people with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD.

6 days ago | news.azpm.org | Tony Perkins

University of Arizona planetary scientists are among those featured in a new NASA documentary on asteroid hunters. The space agency’s “Planetary Defenders” made its online debut yesterday. Catalina Sky Survey’s David Rankin talked about the responsibility of tracking and monitoring potentially dangerous asteroids crossing the Earth’s orbit.

1 week ago | news.azpm.org | Tony Perkins

An upcoming rocket launch is scheduled to begin placing a network of 3-thousand satellites into space. Amazon’s Project Kuiper intends to improve internet service, but it will also add more objects into already crowded spots in Earth's orbit. University of Arizona planetary scientist Vishnu Reddy notes that orbital congestion is a growing concern. “Every time a satellite runs out of gas, we let it go and launch a new satellite, under the assumption that space is vast.

2 weeks ago | azpm.org | Tony Perkins

Home AZPM | Southern Arizona's PBS and NPR Station Arizona’s ties to copper go back to the territorial era, but the mineral also plays a big part in human health.

3 weeks ago | news.azpm.org | Tony Perkins

New north side entrance at the University of Arizona main library. If you have old photo scrapbooks collecting dust at your home, there's a place in Tucson where you can get the contents digitized for free. The University of Arizona opened its Wildcats Memory Lab last week. Faculty librarian Stacey Erdman explains it gives people the chance to convert everything from film to floppy disks into files that can be loaded onto a USB device.