Every great investigator tells a story about the one that got away.
For Kimberly Kobojek, director of the forensic science program at Arizona State University’s West campus, formerly of the Phoenix Police Crime Lab, that white whale was a reddish brown stain.
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Forensic Science Education at ASU: a Peek Behind the Police Tape
NASA has selected its 2018 crop of small businesses to receive funding supporting innovation research and technology transfer, with seven awards going to Arizona.
The Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) contracts, which total $43.5 million nationally among 348 awardees, support projects that promise to benefit both NASA’s mission and the U.S. economy.
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Seven Arizona Small Businesses Receive NASA Funding
The FBI has issued an alert warning users to reboot, update and secure their routers as a precaution against a widespread, foreign state-sponsored malware attack.
Experts estimate the malware, called VPNFilter, has infected hundreds of thousands of routers in more than 50 countries.
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FBI Urges Router Reboot To Guard Against State-Sponsored Malware Attack
When the next Mars rover launches in 2020, it will sport a sidekick: a football-sized scout helicopter.
Mars’s atmosphere is 1 percent as dense as Earth’s, so the copter will have to fly at the equivalent of 100,000 feet — 60,000 feet higher than any Earth-bound chopper has ever flown.
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Mars 2020 Rover Mission To Include Scout Helicopter
A team of researchers at University of Arizona and the University of Toronto have published a study of a rare dementia called primary progressive aphasia, or PPA.
The research linked improved patient outcomes to the brain’s capacity to “recruit” other areas of the brain to make up for deficits.
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UA Study Examines How Brain Rewires Itself To Cope With Rare Dementia
