Arizona prepares for worsening wildfire seasons
Parts of Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and Nevada are likely to see increases of five or more times current levels of annual area burned by 2038, according to the study.
It’s 2018. Why is there a gender wage gap?
The gender wage gap is many things. It’s the occupation women choose. It’s the education women pursue. It’s the statistical motherly traits women possess. But after all that, there’s still a percentage of the wage gap, sometimes as much as 38 percent, that remains inexplicable to researchers. This is often deemed simply. It’s discrimination. The National…
ACL tears hit women hardest
One of the most common knee injury in sports — the ACL tear — is on the rise, especially among women, but is no longer the end of an athlete’s career. A study published in 2017 by a physician at the University of Minnesota, Nicholas Beck, showed ACL tears have increased over 2 percent in…
Computer science experts say concerns surrounding Artificial Intelligence valid
The words “dangerous artificial Intelligence” might bring images of robot assassins to mind. However, science fiction films such as James Cameron’s The Terminator and Alex Garland’s EX_MACHINA are exaggerations of what much of the general public perceives as dangerous AI. Troy Adams, member of the AZSecure Cybersecurity Fellowship Program at the University of Arizona’s Eller…
Desert dwellers get down in the dirt
There is not a more relaxing springtime activity in Arizona than gardening on a cool, 85-degree day surrounded by sky-high saguaros and the dry, cracking dirt floor beneath you. Gardening in desert lands can seem impossible. The days are warm—hot, even—and rainfall is few and far between, but what many desert dwellers do not…