Science & Technology

Researchers are starting to tease out the relationship between morning soil moisture and afternoon rainfall under different atmospheric conditions.

According to new research, if current warming trends continue, an Indian Ocean El Niño could emerge as early as 2050.

The Asian giant hornet has made its way to the United States. Entomologists Wendy Moore and Katy Prudic help separate fact from fiction on the buzz surrounding the hornet's arrival.

A paper published in two medical journals last week offers guidelines for physicians treating coronavirus patients requiring advanced life-saving therapies.

Thirteen research teams will address various aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic with financial support from a rapid-turnaround seed grants supplied through the BIO5 Institute and state funding. The grants amount to more than $500,000.

Inventors at the James C. Wyant College of Optical Sciences have developed a method for enhancing the performance of optical fiber lasers. UArizona has licensed the technology to startup CMLaser Technologies Inc.

Researchers are racing to collect atmospheric and other data, which they can use to determine the extent of the impact of the virus on environmental health.

The OSIRIS-REx spacecraft got within 200 feet of the asteroid Bennu during a practice run for the NASA mission. The spacecraft will grab a sample from Bennu's surface in late summer.

A UArizona-led forecasting team predicts 19 named storms, 10 hurricanes and five major hurricanes during this year's Atlantic hurricane season.

Astronomers believe that what was once thought to be an exoplanet in a nearby star system was actually a cloud of fine dust resulting from a collision in space.