May 1, 2019 UA Students Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships The NSF Graduate Research Fellowship Program recognizes and supports outstanding graduate students in STEM disciplines.
April 29, 2019 Ashes of a Dying Star Hold Clues about Solar System's Birth A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their lives and provide the building blocks of new stars and planets.
April 29, 2019 Climate, grasses and teeth: the evolution of South America mammals Armadillos as big as Volkswagens and other grass-eating mammals became more diverse in South America about 6 million years ago because of shifts in atmospheric circulation.
April 29, 2019 What Deep Learning Reveals About Saturn’s Storms A "deep learning" approach to detecting storms on Saturn show the vast regions affected by storms and that dark storm clouds contain material swept up from the lower atmosphere by strong vertical winds.
April 25, 2019 Dentists Can Be First Line of Defense Against Domestic Violence New findings indicate that oral biomarkers may help health providers identify victims of domestic violence.
April 24, 2019 Bird Feathers Offer Insight into How Evolution Works A UA team shows that evolution is driven by dependency on other species within ecological communities – testing a long-held idea of the late UA professor George Gaylord Simpson.
April 23, 2019 Which Car Crashes Cause Traumatic Brain Injury? New research from aerospace and mechanical engineering professor Samy Missoum details a new method for calculating the probability of a TBI due to a car accident.
April 22, 2019 Ancient Pee Reveals Earliest Stages of Animal Domestication A UA geosciences undergraduate developed an innovative method of using ancient urine salts to reveal when humans in ancient Turkey began shifting from hunting to herding.
April 16, 2019 Powerful Particles and Tugging Tides May Affect Extraterrestrial Life Two new studies by UA space scientists may bring into question the habitability of TRAPPIST-1 exoplanets, three of which are in the habitable zone of space.
April 10, 2019 Four Questions: How Grief Affects the Immune System Losing a loved one is one of life's most stressful experiences, and its toll can be physical as well as emotional, according to more than four decades of scientific research.
