July 14, 2023 Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center receives $7.8M NIH grant The Southwest Environmental Health Sciences Center received a $7.8 million grant to further research on environmental and health challenges in the Southwest.
July 12, 2023 Tasting tomorrow: Adapting heritage cuisine for a changing climate As climate change affects conditions for growing local ingredients, your favorite hometown dish could taste different in the future. The Tasting Tomorrow project seeks to preserve family recipes in the face of climate change.
July 6, 2023 OSIRIS-REx team members practice recovering asteroid sample capsule bound for Earth Everything must go smoothly when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases its capsule full of pristine asteroid material over the Utah desert in September. Members of the mission team gathered at Lockheed Martin in Colorado to rehearse recovering the capsule and its precious cargo.
July 6, 2023 Astronomers discover elusive planet responsible for spiral arms around its star Astronomers have long been puzzled by spiral arms seen around some infant stars. UArizona researchers have discovered a young exoplanet that could explain this phenomenon and provide clues about planetary formation.
July 5, 2023 Creative people enjoy idle time more than others During the pandemic, when the world experienced extended periods of unstructured time, creative types were less bored and more engaged with their thoughts than others, a new UArizona study finds.
July 5, 2023 Space Act Agreement with NASA will advance UArizona engagement in human spaceflight UArizona has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center that will allow the university to engage extensively in human spaceflight missions.
June 29, 2023 UArizona astronomers identify the earliest strands of the cosmic web Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a threadlike arrangement of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the Big Bang. The structure reveals clues and questions about the fundamental architecture of the universe.
June 28, 2023 Money, QS honor UArizona as a top public US university UArizona is included on Money's list of The Best Colleges in America 2023. The university is also ranked No. 54 in the United States and No. 27 among public U.S. institutions in the 2024 QS World University Rankings.
June 13, 2023 Pass the salt: This space rock holds clues as to how Earth got its water The discovery of tiny salt grains in a sample from an asteroid provides strong evidence that liquid water may be more common in the solar system's largest asteroid population than previously thought.
June 5, 2023 Infant universe teemed with full-fledged galaxies crackling with bursts of star formation NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has uncovered an unexpected bounty of full-fledged galaxies at a time when the universe was just getting started. Researchers learned that these galaxies went through bursts of star formation.
