April 22, 2024 Every day is Earth Day at Biosphere 2 A desert ocean, Martian park and the hottest rainforest canopy on Earth can all be found at Biosphere 2, where researchers are studying the effects of climate change and exploring solutions for a better future.
April 19, 2024 Geologists rewind the clock to reveal secrets about Earth's mysterious mantle A UArizona geologist and research team used the movement of one of Earth's tectonic plates to learn more about the planet's past and what's happening in the mantle below.
April 15, 2024 How Pluto got its 'heart' The mystery of how Pluto got a giant heart-shaped feature on its surface has finally been solved by an international team of astrophysicists. According to simulations, a collision between Pluto and a planetary body that happened relatively slowly and at an oblique angle left the impactor "splatted" onto Pluto's surface. The findings also cast doubt on the existence of a subsurface ocean on Pluto, as was previously speculated.
April 12, 2024 Humans will again set foot on the moon; this time, they'll have UArizona science in tow UArizona scientists mapped the moon for the Apollo missions. Now, as NASA astronauts prepare to return to the moon, two of the three instruments they'll bring have UArizona ties. The instruments will allow them to map moonquakes and the moon's subsurface.
April 8, 2024 How the moon turned itself inside out New findings by UArizona researchers offer important insights into the evolution of the lunar interior, and potentially for planets such as Earth and Mars.
March 27, 2024 Webb telescope takes its first images of forming planetary systems The observations will help astronomers refine their theories about the processes involved in planet formation and shed light on what our sun did when it was very young.
March 21, 2024 UArizona scientists pinpoint anorexia's neurologic origins The discovery, led by Haijiang Cai, an associate professor in the Department of Neuroscience, was observed in mice, but the findings could lead to human drug treatments.
March 15, 2024 Innovative chemical strategy targets mosquito larvae gut to combat spread of deadly diseases University of Arizona researchers have modified the gut proteins of mosquito larvae, marking a significant advance in the fight against mosquito-borne diseases.
March 13, 2024 Poor sleep linked to migraine attacks in new UArizona Health Sciences study Researchers at the Comprehensive Center for Pain & Addiction found that sleep disturbances increased vulnerability to migraine attacks, but the opposite isn't true.
March 5, 2024 James Webb Space Telescope captures the end of planet formation How much time do planets have to form from a swirling disk of gas and dust around a star? A new University of Arizona-led study gives scientists a better idea of how our own solar system came to be.