Oct. 6, 2021 Highly Porous Rocks Responsible for Bennu's Surprisingly Craggy Surface Using data from NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission, a UArizona-led team of scientists concluded that asteroids with highly porous rocks, such as Bennu, should lack fine-grain material on their surfaces.
Oct. 6, 2021 New Research on Tropical Cyclone Extremes Could Aid in Disaster Planning Hurricanes and tropical storms are slowing down and dumping more water in the process. At-risk communities could use new research findings to prepare for future disasters.
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. 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. 23, 2021 Earth and Venus Grew up as Rambunctious Planets Using machine learning and simulations of giant impacts, researchers found that planets residing in the inner solar system were likely born from repeated hit-and-run collisions.
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.
