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A team of scientists led by The Genome Center at Washington University School of Medicine in St.

Great golf was mentioned in Tucson's ranking as a best place to raise a family. More Photos : two points of view The ranking "is a teaser to get here to get them to notice Tucson, compared to many, many other communities they could choose.

These days, when the topic of conversation veers toward the H1N1 flu virus, most of the scuttlebutt is centred on the latest information released by medical authorities on when and where to line up in order to be inoculated.

Dozens of American flags lined the outside of a Chicago funeral home where mourners gathered Thursday to pay respects to a 21-year-old soldier who was killed in the Nov.

At a press conference earlier this week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Congressman Rush Holt joined leading university leaders and researchers to launch a new initiative designed to emphasize the impact the economic stimulus package, ARRA, is having on scientific research and innovation and to promote the long-term public investment in R&D that ...

On Tuesday, November 17, Phoenix mayor Phil Gordon took the stage at Civic Space Park for his sixth State of Downtown address.

A carefully nuanced program intended to exert pressure on the unelected government of the United States to disclose the presence of non-human entities and technology operating in Earth's biosphere took another step forward at the conclusion of a 5 day Study Week on Astrobiology by the Pontifical Academy of Sciences at the Vatican last week.

Last weeka s Greenbuild International Conference and Expo wasna t all about trade show booths and discussions.

What goes through someone's mind when he or she decides to take another human being's life is something we'll likely never know.

Pines close to treeline have wider annual growth rings for the period from 1951 to 2000 than for the previous 3,700 years, reports a University of Arizona-led research team.

There is no need to tell Ashlanders that Shakespeare represents a commercial opportunity.

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens of the elephantlike megafauna about 13,000 years ago.

The chance of surviving a cardiac arrest outside a hospital was found to be twice as high when bystanders performed continuous chest compressions without mouth-to-mouth breathing than when bystanders performed standard CPR.

UA surgeons give Gilbert girl, age 1, a liver, small bowel and pancreas in first for state By Phil Villarreal arizona daily star Published: 11.13.2009 In a first for the state, University of Arizona surgeons have performed a three-organ transplant on a 1-year-old Gilbert girl.

What life form can use materials as nutrients that we, and most other animals, would consider waste products? None other than the giant cockroaches that infest sewer systems and erupt from people's bathtub drains, according to scientists Nancy Moran and Zakee Sabree of the University of Arizona, and Srinivas Kambhampati of Kansas State University.

A 55-year-old Tucson man faces federal counterfeiting charges after police say he tried to pass fake money at a university-area bar last week.

Students and staff at Gadsden High School took a moment to honor another fallen soldier with ties to the area during a Veterans Day assembly Tuesday.

The body of a 21-year-old Illinois soldier who was killed in last week's shooting rampage at Fort Hood has arrived back in his hometown.

AZNightbuzz.com looks at the popularity of cupcakes in Tucson, Arizona : In the past three months, three cupcakes-only shops have opened across town.

Most of the dust that coats your furniture and floors comes from outdoors and can pose a health threat, a new study suggests.