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ASU geologists Paul Knauth and Don Burt have some ideas about Mars that don’t quite jive with those of many of their colleagues. They say that scientists really know nothing about the first 400 to 500 million years of the history of Planet Earth. And we know nothing about Mars in the same time period. Mars could’ve been an Eden. But we have no record of any of that. --by Skip Derra

Want to suggest places on Mars for ASU's THEMIS camera to photograph? Want to see the very latest infrared images being beamed back from the Red Planet? Now you can, through two new features of Google Earth 5.0. (image courtesy of NASA) --by Robert Burnham

Students who have ideas for improving health care technology now have a way to make them reality. --by Joe Kullman

ASU professor Mark Robinson is sending his work to the moon this afternoon aboard the Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Phoenix in the summer is hot all around. But low-income neighborhoods are even hotter than wealthy enclaves. How can this be? --by Diane Boudreau

Were Europeans solely to blame for decimating the American Indian population, or did weather help? Why do cocaine harvests decrease during rainy seasons? A new book from an ASU climatologist offers answers to some of weather's greatest mysteries. --by Diane Boudreau

Scientists are taking high-speed motion pictures of photosynthetic reactions that happen in a millionth of a millionth of a second. Their results have revealed a surprising twist to photosynthesis. --by Joe Caspermeyer

"Smart" nanomaterials allow scientists to investigate biological interactions within the body's cells at the molecular level. This could lead to new diagnostic tools and customized therapy and prevention. (part 3 of 3) --by Joe Kullman

The world can get fantastically bizarre when you wander mentally out to the edge of the theoretical dimensions of physics. In fact, thinking about the nanoscale universe is mind bending. (part 2 of 3) --by Joe Kullman

When Comedy Central celebrity Stephen Colbert shamelessly asked the science community to name something cooler than a spider in his honor, entomologists at ASU and the University of New Mexico took him up on the challenge. --by Carol Hughes