Oct. 2, 2018 Facebook Status: Sick. How People Use the Internet to Cope with Illness In a new book, UA communication professor Stephen Rains explores how people diagnosed with serious illnesses turn to social media, online health forums and other digital resources for help coping.
Sept. 27, 2018 Startup Licenses UA-invented Aquatic Animal Growth Assay How can farmers of aquatic animals quickly and efficiently select the top producing stocks for breeding? Benjamin Renquist has invented a new assay that answers this question, offering an easy-to-use assay that has been licensed to startup GenetiRate.
Sept. 27, 2018 The Butterfly Effect and the Future of Teaching Biology In a cross-country collaborative class, a UA professor and a data science specialist help arm students for biology’s big data revolution by incorporating coding into the scientific method.
Sept. 26, 2018 NASA Funds UA-Led $30M Project to Study Cloud-Aerosol Interactions UA professor Armin Sorooshian will continue his research into tiny particles with huge impacts on climate, air quality and human health as one of five NASA Earth Venture investigations.
Sept. 25, 2018 CyVerse Receives Third NSF Award for Enabling Data Science CyVerse, the National Science Foundation's leading project providing computational infrastructure for data science, has renewed its funding through 2023.
Sept. 17, 2018 Measuring species traits to monitor biodiversity Management of global biodiversity requires up-to-date, reliable and comparable biodiversity data, and essential biodiversity variables such as species traits are way to monitor the global state of biodiversity.
Sept. 14, 2018 Ceres Takes Life an Ice Volcano at a Time In a new study by UA planetary scientists, observations prove that ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet Ceres generate enough material to fill one movie theater each year.
Sept. 12, 2018 UA Engineering Students Help a Fellow Wildcat Walk After suffering an aneurysm that left him in a wheelchair 19 years ago, Jeffrey Bristol is getting some assistance in retraining his brain and muscles to walk.
Sept. 10, 2018 Fierce Winds Quench Wildfire-like Star Birth in Far-flung Galaxy Astronomers have detected the most-distant galactic "wind" of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.
Aug. 31, 2018 Mud from the Deep Sea Reveals Clues about Ancient Monsoon UA researchers accessed untapped clues about monsoon activity in the Sonoran desert during the last ice age to help predict how regional climates may respond to future conditions.