Nov. 23, 2021 UArizona Team Creates Instrument to Study Invisible Clouds that Warm Earth Doctoral student Kira Hart Shanks designed and built the infrared channeled spectropolarimeter, which will be deployed onboard a NASA CubeSat to monitor invisible clouds in the upper atmosphere.
Nov. 19, 2021 Age of Empires IV Players Eligible for UArizona Credit Through History Department Collaboration UArizona history faculty members developed educational content for the popular strategy game. Engaging with the content can earn current and future UArizona students one hour of academic credit.
Nov. 18, 2021 Evidence Points to Animal Market, Not Lab, as Epicenter of Pandemic In a paper published in Science, UArizona virus expert Michael Worobey connects the dots from the beginning of the COVID-19 outbreak and shows that an origin other than the Huanan Seafood Market is extremely unlikely.
Nov. 18, 2021 Researchers Develop Ultra-Thin 'Computer on the Bone' Engineers and physicians teamed up to develop an ultra-thin wireless device that grows to the surface of bone and could someday help medical professionals monitor bone health and healing over long periods.
Nov. 16, 2021 Ever Been Lost in the Grocery Store? Researchers are Closer to Knowing Why it Happens A new study by UArizona psychology researchers sheds light on how the brain remembers similar spatial environments and avoids confusion between them – or doesn't.
Nov. 11, 2021 Near-Earth Asteroid Might be a Lost Fragment of the Moon The near-Earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa might actually be a fragment of our moon, according to a team of astronomers led by the University of Arizona. Kamo`oalewa is a quasi-satellite – a type of near-Earth asteroid that orbits the sun but remains relatively close to Earth.
Nov. 10, 2021 Global Temperatures Over Last 24,000 Years Show Today's Warming 'Unprecedented' A UArizona-led effort to reconstruct Earth's climate since the last ice age highlights the main drivers of climate change and how far human activity has pushed the climate system.
Nov. 8, 2021 Helping Women Overcome Discrimination in STEM UArizona Provost Liesl Folks is principal investigator on a project that aims to give women in science, technology, engineering and math disciplines strategic tools to identify, address and overcome gender bias and discrimination.
Nov. 1, 2021 A Life Less Obvious: Study Sheds Light on the Evolution of Underground Microbes A new study sheds light on the evolutionary history of the deep biosphere – a hidden realm of microbes inhabiting the upper few kilometers of Earth's crust.
Oct. 27, 2021 Astronomers Discover Massive Galaxy 'Shipyard' in the Distant Universe Astronomers have discovered a structure thought to be a "protocluster" of galaxies on its way to developing into a galaxy supercluster. The discovery was made possible, in part, by the UArizona-managed Large Binocular Telescope.
