June 21, 2021 Researchers Trace Dust Grain's Journey Through Newborn Solar System Scientists have reconstructed the history of a dust grain that formed during the birth of the solar system. Their findings provide new insights into the formation of planetary systems.
June 11, 2021 New School of Mining and Mineral Resources Will Take Holistic Approach Jointly housed in the College of Engineering and the College of Science, the school will offer training in areas such as data science, business, social sciences, public health and law.
June 9, 2021 Asteroid 16 Psyche Might Not Be What Scientists Expected New research by a UArizona undergraduate finds that asteroid 16 Psyche, the target of an upcoming NASA mission, may not be as metallic or dense as predicted.
June 8, 2021 Organic Molecules Offer Clues About Dying Stars and Outskirts of the Milky Way UArizona researchers have observed, in unprecedented detail, organic molecules in planetary nebulae. Their work sheds new light on how stars form and die.
June 28, 2021 Socioeconomic Fallout of COVID-19 Threatens Global Coffee Industry COVID-19 has become a new threat to the coffee industry by acting as potential trigger for renewed epidemics of coffee leaf rust – the most severe coffee plant disease in the world.
June 2, 2021 UArizona and NASA Identify Methane Super-Emitters in the Nation's Largest Oil Field Fixing just the worst leaks in the Permian Basin oil field could cut emissions of methane — a potent greenhouse gas — by 55 tons an hour, new research finds.
May 27, 2021 Map of 226M Galaxies Provides Unprecedented Look at the Evolution of the Universe An international team of scientists, including several from UArizona, has completed the largest-ever map of the universe, spanning more than 7 billion light-years.
May 24, 2021 University Libraries' Mellon Grant Recipients Launch U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Digital Storytelling Projects The four projects include a documentary about the Indigenous Rarámuri people of northern Mexico, a project documenting the experiences of asylum seekers, an archive of newspapers from around the borderlands, and an oral history project on forensic citizenship.
May 25, 2021 $2M Gift Advances UArizona Space Science Initiatives The gift will allow for the purchase of a nanoscale secondary ion mass spectrometer, which the OSIRIS-REx analysis team will use to help find answers to questions about the origins of the solar system.
June 1, 2021 UArizona Engineers Demonstrate a Quantum Advantage Researchers in the College of Engineering and James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences have demonstrated how quantum resources can improve technology today.