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Ohana.

That’s the word for family in Hawaiian, and it’s a big reason why Casey Soong and Blaise Acosta have come to Arizona State…

Fossil records tell us that the first macroscopic animals appeared on Earth about 575 million years ago. Twenty-four million years later, the diversity of animals began to mysteriously decline, leading to Earth’s first know mass extinction event.

Scientists have…

To advance climate action and protect the world’s vital ecosystems, resources must be made accessible to those in conservation. In an effort to support expanded coral reef protection — an ecosystem integral to coastal communities and marine biodiversity — Arizona…

Humans are a uniquely cooperative species who display this behavior way beyond what is found in any other living social organism. From humans’ earliest societies, these sociable tendencies have manifested in the sharing of a wide variety of material goods — food, money,…

ASU Gammage has announced its lineup of shows for the 2024–25 Desert Financial Broadway Across America Arizona season.

This season includes the Tempe premiere of "Moulin Rouge! The Musical," the Broadway revival of "Funny Girl" and the song-and-dance show "Some…

Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication staff member Karen Bordeleau has been inducted into the Rhode Island Journalism Hall of Fame in recognition of a career that has spanned more than four…

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable fall 2020 graduates.

Once an 8-year-…

For decades, the United States has attempted to wean itself from fossil fuels but with limited success. Coal, natural gas and oil still comprise about 80% of our energy supply, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.

It’s cheap, and it’s in abundant supply, but…

About 2,000 miles below the surface of our planet, Earth's rocky mantle meets the molten, metallic outer core. The changes in physical properties across this boundary are more significant than those between the solid rock we stand upon and the air we breathe. 

The Huffington Post Blog recently featured a post by ASU astronomer and planetary scientist Jim Bell on the possibility of oceans on other planets, titled "One Ocean World Among Many."

In the post, Bell mentions two definite non-Earth oceans that scientists know…