Far From Delivery
A three-episode series
For pregnant women in rural southern Arizona, getting maternity care can mean traveling hundreds of miles, navigating provider shortages and facing difficult medical decisions far from home. In this three-part series, L. M. Boyd with AZPM News explores the human and financial costs of rural maternity care and what’s being done to close the gaps.
Episodes
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The neuroscience behind eye contact and perception of facial expressions, and the fuller physiological symphony that expresses our mental state.
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What do Artificial Vision and Autonomous Robots have in common? Mars, of course.
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What can epidemic outbreaks of influenza tell us about original antigenic sin, and how immunity is more complicated that we once thought?
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Dante Lauretta, Prof. of Planetary Science at the UofA and Principal Investigator of the OSIRIS-REx asteroid sample return mission, discusses the mission.
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Unleashing the hidden wealth of the time and location data from our cell phones to predict behavior and improve health care.
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How changing the shape of a mirror a thousand times per second results in high resolution imaging of low-mass stars, brown dwarfs, and extrasolar planets.
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In 2015, Pope Francis named Tucsonan and U.S. Jesuit Brother Guy Consolmagno the new director of the Vatican Observatory. We discuss the posting.
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Human evolution is marked by 2 locomotor transitions. bipedal walking and increased aerobic levels that likely evolved with the hunter/gatherer lifestyle.
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Using the orbital interaction between Pluto and Neptune to infer large-scale orbital migration of the planets and to predict the existence of "Plutinos."
L. M. Boyd is an award-winning reporter focusing on health issues with a specialty in accountability journalism.