Brain Food: Understanding the Land’s Role in a Changing Climate
Much of the carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere from human activities — like burning fossil fuel — is taken up as plant food. Northern Arizona University’s Debbie Huntzinger, a researcher of...
View ArticleBrain Food: The Active Seismic Zone of Northern Arizona
Earthquakes can’t be predicted, but Professor Dave Brumbaugh says Northern Arizona can expect seismic activity simply because there are a number of faults here. Brumbaugh is the director of the Arizona...
View ArticleBrain Food: Souvenir Research...Why Do We Buy Them?
Travelers love souvenirs, and now research being done at Northern Arizona University proves that.
View ArticleBrain Food: Arctic Research Reveals Evidence Of Climate Changes
Scientists say droughts and wet periods come and go between ice ages. To understand and predict long-term climate changes, Northern Arizona University assistant research professor Nick McKay examines...
View ArticleBrain Food: Social Change Through Community Outreach
A program at Northern Arizona University encourages students to use their own life experiences to develop community projects. Students with NAU’s Campus and Community Based Action Research Teams are...
View ArticleBrain Food: Soft Ticks and Relapsing Fever
Soft ticks are arachnids, like spiders. They live in pine and hardwood forests and thrive on the blood of mice, squirrels, chipmunks and sometimes birds. They don’t usually feed on humans, but, as in...
View ArticleBrain Food: Disappearing Permafrost
The Arctic and Antarctic are the only places on Earth where permafrost is found. some scientists believe this frozen ground is disappearing because of climate change. Ted Schuur is an ecosystem...
View ArticleBrain Food: Home-Centered Healthcare for Native American Patients
The Navajo Nation spans three states and 27,000 square miles. Many homes are so remote and spread out that they don’t have addresses. And, that can make healthcare difficult, especially follow-up care...
View ArticleBrain Food: Endangered Black Footed Ferrets Released Near Flagstaff
If you've clicked on the audio link for this story, then the sound you're hearing is the chatter of one of the most endangered mammals in North American, the black footed ferret. It's a sound that...
View ArticleBrain Food: Flagstaff Becomes Test Site To Track E. coli
E. coli is commonly thought of as a gut bug, but many times it presents itself in the urinary tract. Now, researchers in Flagstaff are studying how the germ gets there.
View ArticleBrain Food: The Emotional Impact of Climate Change
Thousands of scientists worldwide are studying the environmental impact of climate change. But now, two professors of English are studying its emotional impact. SueEllen Campbell and John Calderazzo...
View ArticleBrain Food: Thriving At Home After A Hospital Stay
Very few people want to go to the hospital. Even fewer want to be readmitted after an illness or injury. Now there's a new local program designed to keep you from going back.
View ArticleBrain Food: The Human Microbiome
If you’re one of those people who puts on weight while another person eating the same meal doesn’t, blame your gut! Greg Caporaso says it’s all about the microbiome — or the microbes living in our...
View ArticleBrain Food: NAU Bark Beetle Researcher Fights Back With Fungus
Growing microscopic organisms in a lab to conduct biological warfare might sound like the makings of a science fiction movie. But in the case of the bark beetle, it's real. An entomologist at Northern...
View ArticleBrain Food: For Retired NAU Engineering Prof, Classic Cars Were A Way To...
Every year, generations of classic car enthusiasts flock to sunny Phoenix for the Barrett Jackson Collector Car Auction. It's the essence of automobile artistry, power and engineering. And that's a...
View ArticleBrain Food: Studying Pluto's Ice
Pluto has a surface of nitrogen and methane ice. Scientists know this from telescope observations. But, when the New Horizons spacecraft flies by the dwarf planet in July, they hope to know far more...
View ArticleBrain Food: NAU Physicist Creates Nanorobots That Could Fight Cancer
Tiny nanorobots may be the next big breakthrough in fighting cancer. About the size of a virus, the magnetic, metal machines could be used to detect and treat tumors from inside malfunctioning cells....
View ArticleBrain Food: New Horizon To Study Dwarf Planets In Kuiper Belt
Eighty-five years ago, almost to the day, astronomers at Lowell Observatory in Flagstaff discovered Pluto. It was considered the 9th planet from the sun. But, several decades later, it was demoted to...
View ArticleBrain Food: Textile Therapy
For centuries, people have been knitting, crocheting, weaving and quilting...mostly for functionality but more recently, for enjoyment. And now a clinical psychologist in Flagstaff is studying the...
View ArticleBrain Food: NAU Herpetologist Studies Rattlesnake Relocation
Relocating rattlesnakes is tricky business for more than just the obvious reason. Removing them from their home range or habitat can be stressful to the point of death for the reptiles.
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