Nov. 23, 2021 UArizona Postdoc's 50-Mile Run for Indigenous Scientists Featured in Patagonia Film Lydia Jennings couldn't celebrate her new Ph.D. in 2020 because of the pandemic, so a few months later, she dedicated a 50-mile run to 50 Indigenous scientists. A new film, produced by Patagonia, tells the story.
Nov. 23, 2021 UArizona Team Creates Instrument to Study Invisible Clouds that Warm Earth Doctoral student Kira Hart Shanks designed and built the infrared channeled spectropolarimeter, which will be deployed onboard a NASA CubeSat to monitor invisible clouds in the upper atmosphere.
Nov. 18, 2021 Evidence Points to Animal Market, Not Lab, as Epicenter of Pandemic In a paper published in Science, UArizona virus expert Michael Worobey connects the dots from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and shows that an origin other than the Huanan Seafood Market is extremely unlikely.
Nov. 18, 2021 Researchers Develop Ultra-Thin 'Computer on the Bone' Engineers and physicians teamed up to develop an ultra-thin wireless device that grows to the surface of bone and could someday help medical professionals monitor bone health and healing over long periods.
Nov. 16, 2021 New Center Will Address Native American Disability Challenges Two grants totaling more than $1.3 million will help establish the Native Center for Disabilities, which aims to bring tribal communities together to improve services and employment access for Native Americans with disabilities.
Nov. 11, 2021 Near-Earth Asteroid Might be a Lost Fragment of the Moon The near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually be a fragment of our moon, according to a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona. Kamo`oalewa is a quasi-satellite – a type of near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun but remains relatively close to Earth.
Nov. 10, 2021 Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented' A UArizona-led effort to reconstruct Earth's climate since the last ice age highlights the main drivers of climate change and how far human activity has pushed the climate system.
Nov. 1, 2021 Study Casts Doubt on Theory That Women Aren't as Competitive as Men Women enter competitions at the same rate as men – when they have the option to share their winnings with their peers, new research finds. The study casts doubt on the theory that America's gender wage gap is due to women being less competitive than men.
Nov. 1, 2021 A Life Less Obvious: Study Sheds Light on the Evolution of Underground Microbes A new study sheds light on the evolutionary history of the deep biosphere – a hidden realm of microbes inhabiting the upper few kilometers of Earth's crust.
Oct. 27, 2021 Astronomers Discover Massive Galaxy 'Shipyard' in the Distant Universe Astronomers have discovered a structure thought to be a "protocluster" of galaxies on its way to developing into a galaxy supercluster. The discovery was made possible, in part, by the UArizona-managed Large Binocular Telescope.