Who is the Gardasil shot really for?

  Picture this: a world without sexually transmitted disease. Now open your eyes, step back into reality. The biggest issue facing the Human Papillomavirus shot is that women are being safe and men are not. Women are taking the precautions and receiving the shot and men who are the transmitters of the disease are not….

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How to build a 27-foot mirror under a football stadium

Beneath the east bleachers of  Arizona Stadium, the most delicate and perfected mirror-making process takes place. The University of Arizona’s Richard F. Caris Mirror Laboratory is famous for building mirrors for some of the world’s most powerful telescopes. Engineers at the mirror lab are working on mirrors for the Giant Magellan Telescope; each mirror is…

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Tucson based company has new home for exploring space

By late 2018 Tucson-based World View Enterprises plans to fulfill the dreams of many by sending people into space.  World View Enterprises, a private company, is the only near-space exploration company in Arizona. For $75,000 customers will be taken to an altitude of roughly 100,000 feet, and stay up there for hours before gently coming back…

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