While the United Nations designation of Feb. 11 as the International Day of Women and Girls in Science seeks to bring recognition their role in the fields of science, technology,…

Earth’s largest mass extinction event, the end-Permian mass extinction, occurred some 252 million years ago. An estimated 90 percent of Earth’s marine life was eradicated. To better understand the cause of this “mother of all mass extinctions,” researchers from Arizona…

Marleigh Hurlburt graduated from Arizona State University with a Bachelor of Arts in communication and a minor in philosophy in 2018. She now works at the ASU Foundation as an event coordinator. ASU Now asked her a few questions about her time as a student and…

Saturn’s tiny moon Enceladus may offer the next best hope for finding life elsewhere in our solar system, astrobiologists now say. An article published in Forbes April 29 by Bruce Dorminey, titled “NASA May Plumb For Signs Of Life In Enceladus' Plumes,” discusses two…

Each year, between the burning of fossil fuels and the clearing of old-growth forests, humans put about 10 petagrams of carbon dioxide (CO2) into the atmosphere. A petagram is one quadrillion grams. Ten petagrams is equivalent to the mass of Halley's comet, to put it in…

The carcass of an albatross chick, covered in bottle caps. A dead sperm whale on a Scottish beach, stomach full of debris.

Horrifying images, to be sure. But is plastic pollution causing populations of large sea animals like these to decline?

There is no…

Editor's note: This story is part of a series of profiles of notable spring 2022 graduates.

Sailing the shimmering…

A recent article on industryeurope.net featured the work of ASU researcher Cody Youngbull, who has spent years working with a team at the Biodesign Institute to develop Sensorbots: small, transparent spherical devices that measure underwater environmental events and…

Zócalo Public Square, a digital magazine and host of public programs, has announced author Heather McGhee as the winner of the 2022 Zócalo Public Square Book Prize…

The loss of biodiversity is occurring at an unprecedented rate across Earth. Approximately 1 million species are threatened with extinction, and many species have gone extinct in the past decade. The recent …