Oct. 4, 2021 Cancer Patients on Chemotherapy Likely Not Fully Protected by COVID-19 Vaccine Cancer Center researchers found lower immune response to the COVID-19 vaccine in patients on active chemotherapy. A third dose of the Pfizer vaccine boosted immune response.
Oct. 1, 2021 'Mini Psyches' Give Insights into Mysterious Metal-Rich Near-Earth Asteroids New research into metal-rich asteroids reveals information about the origins and compositions of these rare bodies that could one day be mined.
Sept. 30, 2021 What Our Wandering Thoughts Can Teach Us About Mental Health Researchers analyzed people's idle thoughts for 10 minutes. What they learned may be useful in the diagnosis and treatment of mental health issues such as depression.
Sept. 29, 2021 Learning About the Complexity of Coffee From Crop to Cup As the world celebrates International Coffee Day on Oct. 1, UArizona students will be learning about the complexity of coffee in the new course Food 353: Coffee from Crop to Cup.
Sept. 28, 2021 UArizona Awarded $60 Million to Lead Precision Aging Network The network, established with funding from the National Institutes of Health, has the ultimate goal of developing more effective brain-aging treatments and interventions targeted to the individual.
Sept. 23, 2021 Earliest Evidence of Human Activity Found in the Americas Footprints at White Sands National Park in New Mexico confirm human presence over at least two millennia, with the oldest tracks dating back 23,000 years.
Sept. 22, 2021 Those Earrings Are So Last Year – But the Reason You're Wearing Them is Ancient Shell beads found in Morocco are at least 142,000 years old. Archaeologists say they're the earliest known evidence of a widespread form of human communication.
Sept. 22, 2021 'Dead' Galaxies Mysteriously Ran Out of Fuel to Make Stars in Early Universe UArizona astronomers used massive galaxy clusters as natural magnifying glasses to discover strange galaxies that stopped making stars before their time.
Sept. 20, 2021 What Mutant Flies Can Teach Us About Autoimmune Disorders New research suggests winged critters with a penchant for overripe fruit may hold a secret to understanding gene function and autoimmune disorders such as lupus.
Sept. 13, 2021 Jet Stream Changes Could Amplify Weather Extremes by 2060s By drilling deep into the Greenland ice sheet, researchers reconstructed the jet stream's past and found that climate-caused disruptions are likely to have drastic weather-related consequences.