Research

Women who experience more stressful life events in the year before childbirth are more likely to use marijuana before and during pregnancy, a new study shows.

Attachment anxiety and attachment avoidance can both have negative consequences for well-being due, at least in part, to financial reasons.

Doctoral student Oscar Mendez is studying how the "cat litter parasite" affects pregnant women and people with compromised immune systems.

Adolescent girls who invest a lot of time in editing and selecting the perfect selfie may feel more body shame and appearance anxiety, researchers found.

Loss of groundwater may accelerate drying trends in the eastern U.S., according to an in-depth model of how groundwater will respond to warming.

University of Arizona researchers studied recent extinctions from climate change to estimate the loss of plant and animal species by 2070.

The Gulf Coast is particularly vulnerable to storm surge. New research shows that as the climate warms, the Gulf Coast will be even more susceptible to extreme storm surges.

The University of Arizona's Controlled Environment Agriculture Center will use a $2.7 million federal grant to study indoor leafy green production to help feed a growing global population.

The prehistoric collapse of Easter Island's monument-building society did not occur as long thought, according to a fresh look at evidence by researchers at four institutions, including the University of Arizona.

A therapeutic intervention for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, better known as ALS or Lou Gehrig's disease, could be on the horizon thanks to unexpected findings by UArizona researchers.