‘Tis the season for 110-degree days, excessive-heat warnings and trolling the parking lot for a shady spot. But new research suggests those in the shade might not have it made after all — especially if they are young children.
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For Children In Cars, Shade Offers Little Protection From Lethal Heat
Scientists analyzing Pluto data from the New Horizons spacecraft believe they have, for the first time, found dunes made of frozen methane.
On a planet with atmospheric pressure 100,000 times lower than Earth’s, the phenomenon is as remarkable as its explanation.
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Scientists Discover Methane Dunes on Pluto
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
Everything – drugs included – sooner or later travels the sewers.
So Tempe and ASU plan to study wastewater as part of a public health effort to identify substance abuse hotspots and evaluate efforts to reduce opioid prescriptions.
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Tempe Partners With ASU to Detect Drugs in Wastewater