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. 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. 28, 2021 Construction Underway on University's Grand Challenges Research Building The new building is designed to draw on the university’s core strengths and research collaborations in space exploration, optics, quantum information science and more.
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 '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.
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. 20, 2021 What Mutant Flies Can Teach Us About Autoimmune Disorders New research suggests winged critters with a penchant for overripe fruit may hold a secret to understanding gene function and autoimmune disorders such as lupus.
Sept. 20, 2021 The Way You Write Could Impact What You Pay for a Loan Borrowers whose writing is more readable, positive and truthful are less likely to default on a loan and tend to be charged lower interest rates, researchers have found.
Sept. 16, 2021 This is What it Looks Like When a Black Hole Snacks on a Star Analyzing observations of an X-ray flare and fitting the data with theoretical models, astronomers documented a fatal encounter between an unlucky star and a black hole.
