Sept. 16, 2021 UArizona Engineer Awarded $5M to Build Quantum-Powered Navigation Tools Funded by the NSF Convergence Accelerator Program, the Quantum Sensors project aims to make space and terrestrial navigation far more sensitive, accurate and affordable.
Sept. 14, 2021 NSF Awards UArizona-Led Team $2.8M to Study Earth's Mysterious Subsurface Beneath Earth's surface is a vibrant world of life unlike any other, and researchers hope to dig into its secrets by partnering with companies that drill up to thousands of feet deep.
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.
Sept. 13, 2021 UArizona Launches Center to Advance Resilience of Native Nations, Address Environmental Challenges The Indigenous Resilience Center will work directly with Native American nations to address environmental challenges in ways that respect Native and Indigenous sovereignty and knowledge.
Sept. 9, 2021 New Estimate Makes Groundwater, Not Ice Sheets, Largest Water Reservoir on Land New research suggests that the volume of salty water 2 to 10 kilometers (6.2 miles) beneath the Earth's surface is double previous estimates. The water could store waste fluids, sequester carbon and direct our search for extraterrestrial life.
Sept. 7, 2021 Researchers Enlist Robot Swarms to Mine Lunar Resources As scientists begin to more seriously consider constructing bases on celestial bodies such as the moon, the idea of space mining is growing in popularity. With $500,000 in NASA funding, UArizona engineers are working to advance space-mining methods that use swarms of autonomous robots.
Sept. 7, 2021 Drought – More Than Temperature – Governs Diversity of Life on Earth A new UArizona-led study uses big data to assess why the diversity of species varies across the globe. What researchers learned changes our understanding of future diversity in a warming world.
Sept. 2, 2021 NIH Grant Advances Research on Women's Brains, Menopause and Alzheimer's Risk Roberta Brinton, director of the Center for Innovation in Brain Science, received a $15.1 million grant from the National Institutes on Aging to investigate perimenopausal brain aging.
Sept. 1, 2021 Study Shows Impacts of Deforestation and Forest Burning on Amazon Biodiversity Since 2001, between 40,000 and 73,400 square miles of Amazon rainforest have been impacted by fires, affecting 95% of all Amazonian species and as many as 85% of species that are listed as threatened in the region.
Aug. 31, 2021 UArizona Experts: In Wake of COVID-19, Employers Must Make Offices Healing Spaces The pandemic has forced employers to think about how office spaces can reduce employee stress and enhance well-being, say two UArizona researchers who study how physical spaces affect health.
