Oct. 14, 2026 Footprints in the (white) sand: Humans experienced abrupt environmental shifts during the last ice age Increased precision of radiocarbon dating and archival evidence reaffirms 23,000 years as the age of the famous footprints discovered in White Sands National Park and demonstrates humans withstood abrupt swings in the environment within individual lifetimes.
Oct. 12, 2026 Three years into its second mission, OSIRIS-APEX sets its sights on 2029 OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft that originally flew as OSIRIS-REx, is expected to reach the asteroid Apophis in late spring of 2029, but the team is already keeping the spacecraft busy.
Oct. 8, 2026 Discovery marks the first detection of variable water clouds outside of our solar system A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.
Oct. 7, 2026 Tenacity, triumph and discovery: Looking back at OSIRIS-REx at mission's end Sept. 30 marked the formal end of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. This was the United States' first ambitious attempt to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth, and it was led by the University of Arizona.
Oct. 7, 2026 New U of A study finds Arizona's controlled substances law worked U of A-led research found that Arizona's law was associated with a pronounced increase in naloxone prescribing for patients receiving high-dose opioids. Could the law be an example for other states' approach to the opioid epidemic?
Oct. 6, 2026 Stories from star dust: U of A-led mission will study light from distant stars The mission, dubbed PUFFINS, will use an ultraviolet space telescope to seek answers about dust between stars.
Oct. 5, 2026 Hospitals can be unsafe for pregnant nurses. U of A researchers are fixing that. U of A researchers Jessica Rainbow and Leslie Farland land a $2.4 million grant to study pregnant nurses and their work safety.
Oct. 2, 2026 U of A shines in library and information sciences, earth sciences, water resources in latest global subject rankings Library and information science, housed in the College of Information Science, ranked No. 4 globally and No. 3 in the United States in the Global Ranking of Academic Subjects.
Oct. 1, 2026 Study: Sex chromosomes drive how bodies deal with cancer, heart health and longevity New research shows that X and Y chromosomes drive risk of diseases, including cancer, independent of hormones. Understanding these mechanisms could drive sex-aware medicine.
Oct. 1, 2026 Regents Meeting: U of A submits capital improvement plan, extends contract for Reed-Francois The U of A submitted a new capital improvement plan and extended the contract for for R. Ken Coit Director of Athletics Desireé Reed-Francois at this week's Arizona Board of Regents meeting.
