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Celebrating democracy — and the need to preserve it — was the focus of the 2024 McCain Institute Sedona Forum held over the weekend. This year’s forum, titled “Securing Our Insecure World,” examined the greatest challenges to democracy,…

Access to better data leads to better research. When it comes to data about personalized learning, the more researchers know about students' learning behaviors, the more meaningful the research findings. Protecting the identity of…

A new study, led and contributed to by Arizona State University faculty, provides the strongest evidence to date that not only is nature conservation successful, but that scaling up conservation interventions would be transformational for…

It’s not only a famous line from Ernest Hemingway’s novel “The Sun Also Rises,” it’s an apt description of how Arizona has transitioned from an economy based on its historical “5 C’s” to one centered on a sustainable high-tech industry.…

Stress comes in many shapes and sizes. There’s the everyday stress of preparing for a final exam or being stuck in traffic. And the more significant stress of losing a friend, family member, marriage or job. Then there's…

Jason Khoury, assistant professor in the School of Molecular Sciences and the Navrotsky-Eyring Center for Materials of the Universe, brings a passion for understanding why compounds have specific properties and how to harness that knowledge…

Ask A Biologist, a long-running K–12 educational outreach effort by the School of Life Sciences at Arizona State University, has launched its latest interactive educational game, called "Beat the Heat," just in time for the…

Griffin Freburg doesn’t usually look forward to science class. But on a sunny day in March, the eighth grader changed his tune. Concepts that were usually explained in long paragraphs in a textbook or by a lecture now came alive in…

Amanda Barnette has a passion for art preservation.   That means that, for the past four years, the Arizona State University student’s schedule was filled with classes that fit her artistic bent: art history, art renaissance, modernism,…

In most major cities and buildings, recycling bins can often be found alongside trash bins in an effort to encourage recycling. But is it working? According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the solid waste generated in the…