By Lahela Maxwell |
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017
PHOENIX – A Hispanic-focused software company beat out nine other local startups on Wednesday to win a $50,000 investment in the first Street Pitch event as part of PHX Startup Week. The competition shut down a portion of Central Avenue in downtown Phoenix.
By Lahela Maxwell |
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017
TUCSON – The next generation of space telescopes will launch next year, and two Arizona scientists helped create critical instruments attached to the telescope that they hope will detect the beginnings of the universe.
By Adriana Becerra |
Thursday, Feb. 23, 2017
TEMPE – The man standing in front of me pants as he holds a gun to a blindfolded woman’s head.
By Christopher Silavong |
Wednesday, Feb. 22, 2017
PHOENIX – Recognize this language? ¿Cual es su nombre?
By Kendra Penningroth |
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017
WASHINGTON - The judges were impressed, but when the awards were announced at the Future City competition Tuesday the Veritas Homeschoolers team came up just short, finishing second in the national engineering contest.
By Farai Bennett |
Tuesday, Feb. 21, 2017
GILBERT – The apartments at Vistara at San Tan Village look like many other “luxury” units available in the Valley with its granite countertops and walk-in closets.
By Kendra Penningroth |
Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
WASHINGTON - When faced with the problem of cleaning up a polluted petrochemical site in Ecuador, a team of urban planners from Arizona turned to "microbial degradation" and "phytoremediation" to biologically break down pollutants on the site.
By Amanda Luberto |
Monday, Feb. 20, 2017
MESA – Most schools would warn students away from lasers and saws, but officials encourage the students on the Arizona State University Polytechnic campus in Mesa to use them. The campus serves as the Southwest’s largest 3-D printing research facility: The Manufacturing Research and Innovation Hub.
By Charlie Clark |
Friday, Feb. 17, 2017
PHOENIX – PHX Startup Week launched three years ago. That first week, they had about 2,500 attendees. The next year, they doubled it.
By Graham Bosch and Kanak Jha |
Wednesday, Feb. 15, 2017
SCOTTSDALE – A California-based health diagnostics company has chosen Maricopa County as the pilot testing site for Communidy, a free web app that allows users to see the age and county of people who currently have the flu.
By Blake Hemmel |
Tuesday, Feb. 14, 2017
(Photo by Megan Bridgeman/Cronkite News)
GOODYEAR – A climate-controlled office chair for workers, a rooftop solar-power array and an air-conditioning system that saves one million gallons of water per year are some environmentally savvy methods at REI’s Goodyear warehouse, its leaders said.
By Dustin Quiroz |
Monday, Feb. 13, 2017
WASHINGTON - For centuries, Frankenstein's monster was nothing more than a horrific fantasy, but for two Arizona State University professors it is very real and very modern.