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The discovery of a giant planet orbiting its star at 650 times the average Earth-Sun distance has astronomers puzzled over how such a strange system came to be.

Image Caption: This is an artist's conception of a young planet in a distant orbit around its host star.

As Pearl Harbor Day approaches this will be the final year for a reunion in Tucson of the survivors of the USS Arizona.

Life grew as a result of natural processes that used Earth's raw materials. Models of life's origins almost always look to minerals for such essential tasks as the synthesis of life's molecular building blocks or the supply of metabolic energy, but this assumes that the mineral species found on Earth today are much the same as they were during ... (more)

From left, Claudia Goggin, District 6 vice president of the Society of Hispanic Professional Engineers presents Nicole Theberge with the SHPE Star of Tomorrow award for her work within the Direct and Time Sensitive Strike Weapons Program .

The combined surface area of the three mirrors created to date surpasses that of any existing telescope and will help enable astronomers to peer more deeply into space than ever before once the telescope is completed.

The reality TV star, who was joined by boyfriend Scott Disick, opted for a lose fitting shirt while she had her brunette locks falling past her shoulders.

The Nogales, Ariz., fresh produce industry and related businesses account for just over a third of all economic activity in Santa Cruz County - $437.7 million, according to University of Arizona researchers.

Nine scientists are being honored as SLAS Innovation Award finalists, but only one will receive a $10,000 cash prize at SLAS2014, the Third Annual SLAS Conference and Exhibition, which will be held Jan. 18-22, 2014, at the San Diego Convention Center in San Diego, Calif., USA.

The American Institute of Biological Sciences has selected three individuals as winners of its 2013 Faces of Biology: Broader Impacts Photo Contest.

Many stores now have disinfecting wipes available near their shopping carts and baskets.

Among the select few physicians honored with the prestigious Patients' Choice Award this year is Dr. Brian M. Swan, M.D. In fact, of the nation's 870,000 active physicians and dentists, just five percent received top scores from their patients on sites like Vitals , qualifying them for this honor in 2013.

Dr. Farid Gharagozloo, a Board Certified Tucson, AZ physician specializing in Thoracic & Cardiac Surgery, has been selected for America's Top Doctors for Cancer by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., America's trusted source for identifying Top Doctors, has published its 9th annual edition of America's Top Doctors for Cancer ... (more)

The 'Keeping Up with the Kardashians' star, who has frequently argued with his long-term girlfriend, Kourtney Kardashian, about his drinking on the reality TV series in the past, reportedly caused ''chaos'' when he partied with the brunette beauty at her former college, the University of Arizona in Tucson.

Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered diverse communities of bacteria, fungi and archaea on the surface of stalactites in Kartchner Caverns, a limestone cave system in Arizona.

Mica Creek-Sagamore , a Phoenix-based real estate investment firm, bought Blacksburg's second largest apartment and townhome complex, Terrace View.

Manzo Elementary School, in part with their scaled-down experiment of Biosphere 2's LEO project, planted a variety of seeds on their miniature hillslopes.

In the perpetual darkness of a limestone cave, UA researchers have discovered a surprisingly diverse ecosystem of microbes eking out a living from not much more than drip water, rock and air UA scientists have discovered diverse communities of bacteria, fungi and archaea on the surface of Kartchner stalactites that live off of nutrients from the ... (more)

A dedication ceremony will be held on Saturday, March 23, 2013 to officially dedicate the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park as a national historic site in journalism by the Society of Professional Journalists.

David Dettman is a research scientist in the University of Arizona Department of Geosciences.