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Tune in for your favorite PBS shows and Arizona PBS specials like Check, Please! Arizona, Playlist 48 and Trail Mix’d.

Explore our relationship with “man’s best friend” through three stories about canine-related research, including a cancer therapy that might work for dogs and humans, and research into the design of dog shelters. Plus, we’ll look at how treating digestive problems is reducing symptoms of autism and the anti-microbial possibilities of clay.

When Arizona PBS viewers tune in to “Arizona Horizon” on Monday, they’ll see the same trusted news professionals but with a bold, new background.

President Biden orders a “pause” on border wall construction. Horizonte host, Jose Cardenas talked with Cochise County Sheriff Dannels about his assessment of the current situation at the Southern border along with his perspective on stopping construction of the border wall and other immigration Executive Orders signed by President Biden.

Because of the coronavirus, everyone has had to start wearing face masks. Masks cause a lot of difficulties for people but are necessary for public health. Masks make it harder for people to hear the tone of others’ voices and hear social cues. Steve Fillmore, from the Catalyst, looks at and compares how wearing a mask to autism.

Steve Filmer, from the Catalyst, shows us how a team is working with engineers and chemists to create an instrument that takes less than two hours to see if an infection is resistant to antibiotics. It also is to develop skin glues to prevent a wound infection!

President Biden orders a “pause” on border wall construction. Horizonte host, Jose Cardenas talked with Cochise County Sheriff Dannels about his assessment of the current situation at the Southern border along with his perspective on stopping construction of the border wall and other immigration Executive Orders signed by President Biden. Dannels has served on the border for 37 years. He […]

Catalyst takes us through time and space and introduces us to a new telescope that’s said to be released this year. Even with telescopes, there are a lot of things we cannot photograph in space. There is so much in space waiting to be observed and discovered, and Arizona State University’s School of Earth and Space Exploration gets to have a part in it.

Steve Filmer from the Catalyst follows ASU Canine Scientist Lisa Gunter as she travels to Minnesota for fieldwork; her focus is… could we improve dog shelters in ways that would make dogs less stressed, dogs that are happier and more “adoptable” to humans?

The pandemic has us leaning on the internet to do what we can’t do in person. Limited internet access is hurting the education of kids in western countries and in the U.S., including Arizona. There are plenty of communities around the world that don’t even have the internet. From the Catalyst science team and producer Steve Filmer, a story about how students and tech innovators at ASU are closing that gap.