Oct. 1, 2020 Einstein's Description of Gravity Just Got Much Harder to Beat Einstein's theory of general relativity has withstood over 100 years of scrutiny and testing, including the newest test from the Event Horizon Telescope collaboration, led by UArizona astrophysicists.
Sept. 28, 2020 Startup Licenses UArizona Alternative Solar Energy System Researchers have been developing and refining a highly efficient photovoltaic system that captures more heat and energy from sunlight than current solar panel models available.
Sept. 15, 2020 Arizona COVID-19 Genomics Union Tracks Virus Strains in State Molecular clock analysis showed no widespread community distribution of the highly contagious coronavirus in Arizona until mid-February.
Sept. 10, 2020 How Coronavirus Took Hold in North America and Europe Early interventions were effective at stamping out infections, but subsequent travel allowed the virus to ignite major outbreaks in Europe and North America, a new study finds.
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 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. 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. 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.
