College students are less likely to let their female friends engage in risky sexual behavior after a night of drinking alcohol. Recent findings in the journal Communication Education examine how and why college students protect their friends who have been heavily drinking.
Ondrej Krivanek, an adjunct physics professor at Arizona State University who has a reputation on campus and off as a “brilliant designer of scientific instruments,” was recently elected a fellow of the Royal Society, the U.K.’s national academy of science.
Two Arizona State University researchers are members of an international team who conclude that human ancestors began using stone tools and eating meat some 800,000 years earlier than previous estimates.
Two scientists at Arizona State University are on a core team of researchers from five universities awarded $20 million to improve listening and reading comprehension in preschool through third grade.
The best Mars map ever made is now available online for planetary scientists and armchair astronauts alike. And citizen scientists invited to help make it even better.
The ability to diagnose and treat brain dysfunction without surgery may rely on a new method of noninvasive brain stimulation using pulsed ultrasound developed by a team of scientists led by William “Jamie” Tyler, a neuroscientist at Arizona State University.
Minnow with fangs, golden orb spider and carnivorous sponge make the 2010 list.
Impacting how middle school students learn statistical reasoning, and how their teachers teach such reasoning, is the aim of a National Science Foundation-funded research project by Arizona State University mathematics educator Luis Saldanha. The assistant professor in the School of Mathematical and Statistical Sciences is one of ASU’s latest recipients of an NSF Career Award.
Research conducted in a computerized microworld by scientists at Arizona State University and Indiana University show how common-pool resources – such as fisheries, forests, water systems or even bandwidth – can be managed effectively by self-organized user groups under certain conditions. The findings are published April 30 in the journal Science.
Looming declines in phosphorus spark concerns about future food security and launch new initiative at Arizona State University.
It was not that long after Souad Ali’s book “A Religion, Not a State” reached the top of Amazon's list for “bestselling new and future releases in Turkey” that this Arizona State University scholar of Arabic and Middle Eastern studies found herself before a standing-room-only audience at the American University of Kuwait for her lecture titled “Islam and Secularism.”
Historians, political scientists, communicators and law professors will huddle with U.S. foreign policymakers from the military, CIA and State Department in Phoenix March 31-April 2 on topics including nuclear proliferation, counterinsurgency, trafficking and immigration.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano will be at Arizona State University March 25 to deliver this year's John P. Frank Memorial Lecture. The former Arizona governor will speak on "Meeting New and Evolving Threats to Our National Security."
Engineers, scientists, government and education leaders from across the country will participate in the launch of a call to action by the National Academy of Engineering, focusing on the challenges the nation must address to maintain national security, quality of life and an environmentally and economically sustainable future in the 21st century.
Safeway Inc. has joined The Sustainability Consortium, a leading organization in the movement to consider the social and environmental factors of consumer production and manufacturing practices. The consortium is jointly administered by Arizona State University and University of Arkansas.
A 15-year research collaboration between Japan’s Aichi Prefectural University and Arizona State University was formalized Feb. 18 with the signing of an agreement that brings promises of student and faculty exchanges and a joint graduate program.
Secretary Wayne Clough, head of the Smithsonian, and ASU President Michael M. Crow launched a global classroom – with one foot in Arizona’s Sonoran desert and the other in the tropical landscapes of Panama.
The timing of molar emergence and its relation to growth and reproduction in apes is being reported by scientists at Arizona State University’s Institute of Human Origins. “We can use the same techniques to calculate ages at first molar emergence from the fossils of early hominids that just happened to die while their first molars were erupting,” they say.
Arizona State University and Mayo Clinic in Arizona are joining forces in a partnership to investigate metabolic syndrome – a cluster of high-risk medical factors that include increased blood pressure, elevated insulin levels, excess body fat and abnormal cholesterol levels, which can lead to heart disease, stroke and diabetes.
A baby’s sleep position is the best predictor of a misshapen skull condition known as deformational plagiocephaly – or the development of flat spots on an infant’s head – according to findings reported by Arizona State University scientists in the December issue of the journal Pediatrics.
The impact of airborne nitrogen released from the burning of fossil fuels and wide-spread use of fertilizers in agriculture is much greater that previously recognized and even extends to remote alpine lakes, according to a study published Nov. 6 in the journal Science.
The "Ask A Biologist" Web site at Arizona State University, a scientific sanctuary for students and teachers alike – hosts this year's Ugly Bug Contest.
Instead of killing cancer cells, researchers at Arizona State University will use the laws of physics to figure out how to control them. That fresh approach is behind a new the Center for Convergence of Physical Science and Cancer Biology at ASU, with funding from the National Institutes of Health’s National Cancer Institute.
Arizona State University Research Professor Elinor Ostrom has won this year’s Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences, a prize she shares with Oliver E. Williamson of the University of California at Berkeley.
An Arizona State University program that immerses future teachers in school settings to maximize their readiness for successful careers as educators has been awarded a $33.8 million federal grant to expand across metropolitan Phoenix and the state of Arizona, spanning rural American Indian communities and the Tucson area.
A new international group of natural and social scientists, philosophers, historians, physicians, rabbis, theologians and educators — The Judaism, Science and Medicine Group — is working together to promote and facilitate a close relationship between the Jewish religion, its cultures and values, and the sciences.
Human activities have already pushed the Earth system beyond three of the planet's biophysical thresholds, with consequences that are detrimental or even catastrophic for large parts of the world, conclude 29 European, Australian and U.S. scientists in an article in the Sept. 24 issue of the scientific journal Nature.
Evidence that early modern humans living on the coast of Africa employed pyrotechnology in their stone tool manufacturing process is being reported by researchers, including three from the Institute of Human Origins at Arizona State University, in the Aug. 14 issue of Science.
In a study released online on July 22 in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society: Biological Sciences, researchers at Arizona State University and Princeton University show that ants can accomplish a task more rationally than our "“ multimodal, egg-headed, tool-using, bipedal, opposing-thumbed "“ selves. This is not the case of humans being "stupider" than ants.
The often-used one-size-fits-all approach to policies aimed at achieving sustainable social-ecological systems needs to be updated with a diagnostic tool to help scholars from multiple disciplines better frame the question and think through the variables, asserts social scientist and political economist Elinor Ostrom in the July 24 Science.
NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter Camera has taken and received its first images of the Moon, kicking off the year-long mapping mission of Earth's nearest celestial neighbor. The LROC imaging system is under the watchful eyes of Arizona State University professor Mark Robison, the principal investigator.
ASU mathematical epidemiologist Gerardo Chowell-Puente is co-author of a new study of the A(H1N1) influenza pandemic strain. Findings, published June 29 online in the New England Journal of Medicine, reveal an age shift in the proportion of cases toward a younger population when compared with historical patterns of seasonal influenza in Mexico.
Mathematicians, biostaticians and public health officials from across North America will gather at Arizona State University June 25-28 to focus on understanding, possibly mitigating the spread of the H1N1 flu virus. They plan to take up the challenge of proposing science-based strategies that can slow the spread of pandemic flu.
"This report is a very thorough, sobering synthesis of what we now know about the impacts of climate change on all of us," says Nancy Grimm, a professor at Arizona State University, one of the authors on the new federal study assessing the current and anticipated domestic impacts of climate change.
A majority of Southwesterners "“ 86 percent "“ think the U.S. health care system is in need of some reform, and more than half "“ 53 percent "“ indicate "a great deal of reform" is needed, according to the most recent Arizona State University-Southwest Poll.
"True muonium," a long-theorized but never-seen tiny atom, might be observed in current and future super collider experiments, based on theoretical work published by researchers at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Arizona State University.
ASU has teamed with Google to create a new feature in Google Earth 5.0 that lets members of the public suggest places on Mars to photograph with ASU's THEMIS camera on NASA's Mars Odyssey orbiter.
The International Institute for Species Exploration at ASU announces the top 10 new species described in 2008. On the list are a pea-sized seahorse, caffeine-free coffee and bacteria that live in hairspray. Also issued is the State of Observed Species report, which notes 18,516 species new to science in 2007.
Agaporomorphus colberti, a diving beetle from Venezuela, was named by entomologists Quentin Wheeler of Arizona State University and Kelly Miller of the University of New Mexico to honor Stephen Colbert, the satirical host and executive producer of Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report."
Arizona State's David Altheide builds on his two-decade study of mass media messages of fear to argue that Columbine and other school shootings were redefined as a form of terrorism that was consistent with news emphases and social control efforts that emerged prior to the invasion of Iraq.
Economic forecasts are dismal, yet many Southwesterners in Arizona, Nevada, Texas and New Mexico are optimistic that conditions in the U.S. will improve over the next year, according to the most recent Arizona State University-Southwest Poll.
Researchers at Arizona State University show that having a more flexible approach to resolving an acute conflict interaction results in more frustration and anger.
University of Arizona's planetary scientist and impact specialist H. Jay Melosh is this year's recipient of the Eugene Shoemaker Memorial Award presented by the BEYOND Center for Fundamental Concepts in Science at Arizona State University.
Kosovo President Fatmir Sejdiu received the first Arizona State University Distinguished Global Leadership Award in a Feb. 23 ceremony on campus. The president spent a semester on campus in 2003.
Arizona State University is one of seven U.S. universities to receive a Minerva award for a research project titled "Finding Allies for the War of Words: Mapping the Diffusion and Influence of Counter-Radical Muslim Discourse." The Minerva Research Initiative is a program that focuses on areas of strategic importance to U.S. national security policy.
Lawrence Krauss, a theoretical physicist and cosmologist at Arizona State University, will co-chair the Board of Sponsors of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists with Nobel Laureate Leon Lederman. Together they plan to re-energize a national discussion on the reduction of nuclear weapons stockpiles, and a commitment to fight proliferation and encourage disarmament efforts.
An "˜honest indicator' has been discovered by a scientific team at Arizona State University that reveals reproductive cheating. But before you run out to buy an infidelity identification kit, know that it only works for ants.
Arizona State University geographer Paul Torrens receives 2007 Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) for his innovative, immersive 3-D computational modeling, which is designed to help predict crowd behavior.
Arizona State University Professor Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, director of the Jewish Studies program, will be one of 30 representatives of different major faith traditions discussing the world's climate issues at the Interfaith Summit on Climate Change in Uppsala, Sweden, Nov. 28-29.
Aging "“ we are all doing it. It is relentless and terminal. We stand in modern times with a span of a century to our name, at most. Technological wizardry abounds, so why do the factors that determine life span still elude us? If you ask Arizona State University researcher Juergen Liebig, he would point to his favorite study animal, the ant, to provide answers.
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