On a recent sunny morning, a circle of Arizona State University students is flinging colorful balls and toys to each other on a lawn. Each student had to focus on all the items flying through the air at them.

It was a perfect metaphor for juggling the demands of…

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has set a new milestone: capturing images of over 40 individual stars in a galaxy so distant that its light has traveled since the universe…

By Bret Hovell

Editor's note: This story is featured in the winter 2025 issue of ASU Thrive.

On Nov. 9, 1923, Harvey Nininger saw his…

Cities have long been celebrated as places of economic growth and social mobility, but new research suggests that their role in fostering opportunity has changed dramatically.

By Preesha Kumar

From memory foam mattresses to the camera and GPS navigation on our phones, technology that was developed for space applications enhances our everyday lives on Earth. In fact, Chris Langenderfer believes space…

As advancements in education and new models of teaching emerge, the “traditional” high school experience has shifted — with polls showing …

Arizona State University is a comprehensive teaching, learning and discovery enterprise — more than 1 in 4 working Arizonans with at least a bachelor’s degree earned it from ASU —  but its benefits extend well beyond broadening the horizons of students and…

Since childhood, Ritisha Das wanted to become an astronaut. When it was time to go to college, she decided to double major in mechanical engineering and mathematics in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona…

Editor’s note: This story is featured in the 2024 year in…

When asked to imagine what a room inside a prison might look like, most people would have trouble thinking of anything warm and inviting.

For those experiencing incarceration, it's also difficult to imagine a better sense of well-being if their everyday environment…