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Every year, NASA's Desert RATS spend two weeks in the Arizona desert conducting tests in anticipation of future lunar exploration. This year, two crew members lived for more than 300 hours inside NASA's new moon vehicle, the Lunar Electric Rover. --by Nikki Staab

Single DNA mutations can make the difference between robust health and debilitating illness, but how do we know which mutations are which? Current tests aren't very reliable, but ASU scientists are helping find better ways to decipher our genetic codes. --by Richard Harth

How big was the world’s heaviest hailstone? Where is the hottest place on Earth? How fast was the fastest tornado? A new, interactive map of weather extremes lets you find out the answers and lots more. --by Diane Boudreau

Phoenix-area housing prices are declining at a slower rate than earlier this year, indicating that the worst is over for falling home values, a new ASU study has found. --by Hal Mattern

What weighs 2,600 pounds, would fill a Smart Car to overflowing, and comes to ASU from all over the world? --by Robert Burnham

Nanotechnology has the potential to affect our freedom, privacy, health and safety in both positive and negative ways. David Guston, director of ASU's Center for Nanotechnology in Society, talks about social concerns related to nanotech and how we can address them. --by Joe Kullman

A lack of individual options among ants minimizes their opportunities to make mistakes. As a result, they may be more rational in their decision making than we big-brained humans. --by Margaret Coulombe

Scientists have new pictures of the old Apollo landing sites, just in time for the 40th anniversary of the Apollo 11 mission that put humans on the moon. --by Nicole Staab

Prepare to see more advertising when you go to the movies. Research shows product placement in films boosts stock prices, with a couple of interesting exceptions. --by Debbie Freeman

How do we decide what kinds of water conservation measures to implement when we don't know what future precipitation, temperatures, or population will be? Craig Kirkwood helps people make decisions when conditions are uncertain. --by Diane Boudreau