Science & Technology

Laura Condon was motivated to learn to build computer models based on the physics of how water moves. The result is a computer simulation of all water on and under the ground across the contiguous United States.

Zack Guido encountered conflict and challenges faced by people dealing with limited resources. This experience embedded within him a drive to study the intersection of people and their environment.

A self-described "terrible student but very good with people and communication," Elise Gornish took a job in the fashion industry. Little did she know that before long, she would find herself in the Canadian Arctic jumping out of helicopters and dodging polar bears.

Greg Barron-Gafford used to see solar farms on the side of the highway and often asked himself the same question: Why can't we grow plants there, too?

Ladd Keith once spent his Tucson summers holing up inside to play hours of video games. Today, he is one of the country's foremost experts on planning for extreme heat, the deadliest weather-related phenomenon.

How did someone born and raised in the Garden State become such an influential voice in Southwest water research and policy? According to Sharon Megdal, she was "reincarnated as a water person."

Increased precision of radiocarbon dating and archival evidence reaffirms 23,000 years as the age of the famous footprints discovered in White Sands National Park and demonstrates humans withstood abrupt swings in the environment within individual lifetimes.

OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft that originally flew as OSIRIS-REx, is expected to reach the asteroid Apophis in late spring of 2029, but the team is already keeping the spacecraft busy.

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.

Sept. 30 marked the formal end of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. This was the United States' first ambitious attempt to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth, and it was led by the University of Arizona.