What are memories made of? And can they be transferred?
One clue might lie with a humble sea slug called the California sea hare (Aplysia californica).
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UCLA Scientists Transfer Memories Between Sea Slugs
One of the world’s rarest, largest and foulest flowers will bloom Thursday night at the Tucson Botanical Gardens.
Amorphophallus titanum, better known as the corpse flower for its signature rotting-carcass odor, can take 7-10 years or longer to bloom.
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Tucson Garden Offers Rare Chance To See Corpse Flower Bloom
Collectors know the names: Blue Bird, Sleeping Beauty, Birdseye. Each evokes a color and pattern, from jade green to deepest robin’s egg blue, lightly freckled or shot through with pyrite spider webs of gold and black.
In this edition of KJZZ’s Untold Arizona series, I trace Arizona’s turquoise legacy through time, from new archaeological finds to the mineral’s uncertain future.
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Untold Arizona: Tracing Arizona’s Turquoise Legacy Through Time
This week marks 25 years since more than 1,700 scientists, led by the Union of Concerned Scientists, issued a “warning to humanity” concerning the costs of continued environmental destruction.
Now, they’ve issued another — this one signed by 15,000 scientists representing 184 countries.
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25 Years Later, Global Scientists Issue Second Warning To Humanity
Arizonans were treated to an unusual spectacle Tuesday night as a fireball flashed across the sky around 8:30 p.m.
The American Meteor Society received reports from six states describing the object, which flashed brighter than the full moon before quickly fizzling out.
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Arizona Fireball Visible Across 6 States
