WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Defense issued the following news: * * * Contracts for March 5, 2025 NAVY Systems Planning and Analysis Inc., Alexandria, Virginia, is being awarded a $98,585,373 cost-plus-fixed-fee modification (P00002) to a previously awarded and announced contract (N00030247002) for support services for Nuclear Sea-Launched Cruise Missile Weapons Surety, Policy, and Compliance. Tasks to be performed include systems engineering and system integration, test/fl  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 -- The U.S. Department of Homeland Security's Immigration and Customs Enforcement issued the following news release: * * * Illegal alien indicted for conspiracy to transport other aliens and possession with intent to distribute heroin, following ICE, joint law enforcement partner investigation PHOENIX, Ariz. - Last week, a grand jury returned an indictment against Edgar Guadalupe Jimenez-Aguilar, an illegal alien living in Phoenix, for conspiracy to transport illegal alien  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 6 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * Santa Cruz River moves closer to national designation with guidance from U of A experts When U of A ecologist Michael Bogan leads local school groups to spots along the Santa Cruz River to learn about desert aquatic wildlife, it's a new experience for most attendees - including bus drivers and chaperones. "They leave realizing that Tucson has a river, that there's wildlife, and that it's a spot the  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 6 -- The University of Arizona's Health Sciences issued the following news release: * * * Study reveals hope for immunotherapy as prostate cancer treatment Researchers at University of Arizona Cancer Center used a double-pronged approach to reduce tumor growth in tissue samples of prostate cancer. A new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers found that an immunotherapy previously shown to be ineffective against prostate cancer may have therapeutic p  more

TUCSON, Arizona, March 6 -- The University of Arizona issued the following news release: * * * The yucca and the moth: How extreme weather impacts the timing of biological events By Daniel Stolte Whether it is flowers sprouting in the spring, cicadas mating in the blistering heat of summer, or caterpillars hatching to feed on their favorite host plant - across the natural world, the timing of biological events is so important it spawned its own scientific discipline: phenology. Much of phe  more

CORAL GABLES, Florida, March 6 -- The University of Miami issued the following news: * * * Exposing the 'DIRT' on dust In one of the few studies of its kind, a University of Miami doctoral student and others have documented the particle size of household dust found on children's hands after play activities. By Robert C. Jones Jr. Billowing clouds of the stuff struck a severe blow to the American heartland during the 1930s, ruining wheat crops and forcing farming families to flee westward.   more