Firefighters work odd hours, often involving one or more 24-hour shifts, with mandatory overtime — not the best recipe for a healthy sleep pattern. The University of Arizona College of Public Health has received a $4 million NIH grant to help firefighters get the shuteye they need.

The seven Colorado River Basin states are trying to figure out how to use less water from the overallocated river. And the decisions they make could have major impacts for all of us living in the West.

Research suggesting links between heat and miscarriages has inspired a new study to monitor the temperature and humidity felt by pregnant people at various stages of pregnancy. The project, which kicked off in May, is funded by the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Temperature records aren’t the only things we’ve broken this summer. Utilities Salt River Project and Arizona Public Service reported record electricity usage as households battle the intense summer heat. The Show talked about how APS is handling the high demand with company president Ted Geisler.

Dr. Mohab Ibrahim is director of the Chronic Pain Management Clinic at the University of Arizona in Tucson, and he joined The Show to explain what ketamine does and how people can use it to help them.

Tissue engineering, gene editing, organs-on-chips: There’s no question cell cultures and cell lines have transformed biology and medicine. But as science approaches the limits of what one or two cell types can do, researchers are turning to a newer tool — one that can imitate bodily environments and mimic not just cells, but tissues and organs.
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We generally think of measles as a childhood disease. But since the year 2000, about 40% of U.S. cases have occurred in adults. Though the virus poses the greatest danger in babies, the age group next most likely to be hospitalized by measles are adults 25+.
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Carbon cycling refers to the process of how carbon moves from the soil to plants and the environment. Subsurface microbes play a key role in moving carbon, but that could be impacted by stress from drought.

This week kicks off the full enforcement of the Biden administration’s ban on most incandescent light bulbs. The White House finalized the rule last year, reversing a rollback of the standards by the Trump administration.