Sept. 9, 2020 Where Rocks Come Alive: OSIRIS-REx Observes an Asteroid in Action While studying the asteroid Bennu up close, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft witnessed periodic outbursts of material being kicked up from the surface. Scientists detail the observations in a new collection of research papers.
Sept. 2, 2020 Do Big Tadpoles Turn into Big Frogs? It's Complicated, Study Finds Researchers studied the evolution of frog and tadpole body sizes. They found that the two life stages do not evolve completely independently of each other, as previously thought.
Aug. 26, 2020 How Cold Was the Ice Age? Researchers Now Know Researchers combined past data on temperature and carbon dioxide levels to reconstruct the temperature of the last ice age. Their resulting "hindcast" may shed light on future climate.
Aug. 26, 2020 UArizona Scientists to Build What Einstein Wrote off as Science Fiction With $26 million in federal funding, UArizona is charged with developing the internet of the future. Gov. Ducey, President Robbins and others discussed the impact of the new Center for Quantum Networks.
Aug. 13, 2020 To Understand the Machinery of Life, a UArizona Scientist Breaks it on Purpose By tinkering with some of life's oldest components, researchers made an unexpected discovery: Evolution isn't very good at multitasking.
Aug. 12, 2020 Successful Second Rehearsal Puts OSIRIS-REx on Path to Asteroid Sample Collection During its final practice run in preparation for sample collection at asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached the surface closer than ever before.
Aug. 12, 2020 Researchers Unlock Secrets of the Past with New International Carbon Dating Standard To assess the age of historical objects, scientists rely on radiocarbon dating – a technique that is now set to become more accurate than ever, thanks to an international team of researchers.
Aug. 10, 2020 How Boundaries Become Bridges in Evolution The evolution of colorful feathers shines light on the missing link in evolution by natural selection, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.
Aug. 3, 2020 Evidence Mounts that Brains Diverged from One Ancestral Arrangement Humans, mice and flies share the same fundamental genetic mechanisms that regulate the formation and function of certain brain areas, according to a new study.
July 28, 2020 Researchers Detangle Protein Interaction Implicated in Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's New findings by UArizona chemists Wolfgang Peti and Rebecca Page provide a foundation to better understand and treat two neurological disorders.
