By Nicole Gleason/Arizona Sonora News A lot of astronomers start out as stargazing children whose curiosity for the cosmos is fueled by a key experience. For Carl Sagan, it was the 1939 New York World’s Fair, where he saw a flashlight shining on a photoelectric cell. For Neil deGrasse Tyson, it happened after he visited…
By Mark Lawson/Arizona Sonora News It’s a Wednesday evening after school, and the echo of basketballs bouncing across the two courts that make up the LEAD Athletics facility near Tucson International Airport can be heard long before you make your way into the gym. The same hardwood floors that Arizona Wildcat legends such as Mike…
By Laura Fuchs/Arizona Sonora News Shaun runs the “cart master” during the morning shift at the Walmart on Wetmore Road in Tucson. The four-wheeled, battery-operated shopping cart pusher is controlled with a hand-held remote. Once he has the first steel cart in place, Shaun can nest up to 20 carts with a long red nylon…
Bianca Aponte has been living below the poverty line in Tucson since she was born. The cities of Tucson and South Tucson are the poorest in the state. Nearly half of the residents of South Tucson are considered poor, according to the U.S. Census. Not all the faces of poverty are the same, though. Poverty…
Kitt Peak National Observatory is receiving a two-year, $6.4 million transformation to save its historic solar telescope facility and renovate its aging visitor center. Built in 1962, the McMath-Pierce Solar Telescope with its iconic V shape is about to be knocked out of first place as the world’s largest solar telescope. The government stopped funding…
