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At this pit on Mars, the steep slope at the northern edge  exposes a cross section of a thick sheet of underground water ice. The image is from the HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter, with an enhanced-color central swath between grayscale
Jan. 12, 2018

Steep Slopes on Mars Reveal Structure of Buried Ice

Revealed by the UA-led HiRISE camera, sheets of water ice beneath the surface on Mars hold clues to the planet's climate history — and might yield drinking water for future astronauts.

An artist’s impression of a very distant quasar powered by a black hole with a mass 2 billion times that of the sun
Jan. 11, 2018

Students Help Little Telescope Do Big Things

A four-year effort involving Kitt Peak's Bok Telescope and UA students helped a team of astronomers measure the masses of a large sample of supermassive black holes. Despite its modest size and advanced age of almost 50 years, the instrument keeps churning out big science.

Mine workers wait for blasting to finish in the student-run San Xavier Mine near Tucson.
Jan. 8, 2018

Startup Licenses UA-Invented Mining Sensor Network

At the core of the system licensed by GUIA is the ability to sense a miner's location and body temperature, predict potential problems and recommend steps to avert health risks.

June 12, 2017

7 Things You Didn't Know About Cicadas

A focused-ion-beam scanning-electron microscope, capable of drilling a hole in a piece of dust, will help provide a nanoscopic look at the asteroid sample from OSIRIS-REx.(Photo: Mari Cleven/UA Office of Research, Discovery and Innovation)
May 26, 2017

UA Has the Tools to Analyze Asteroid's Dirt

This month, SenesTech will begin its collaboration with the New York Department of Health to target rat infestations at sites within the city.
April 10, 2017

Birth Control for Rats? Don't Laugh, It's a Reality and Cities Want It

This artist’s concept depicts the early Martian environment — believed to contain liquid water and a thicker atmosphere — versus the cold, dry environment seen at Mars today . NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile Evolution is in orbit of the Red Planet to study its upper atmosphere, ionosphere and interactions with the sun and solar wind.(right)
March 30, 2017

How Mars Lost Its Atmosphere and Became a Frigid Desert

Rats were exposed to room light and fitted with contact lenses, one shown here, that allowed the green spectrum wavelength to pass through the lenses.(Photo: Bob Demers/UANews)
March 1, 2017

Treatment of Pain Gets the Green Light

HIV particles infecting a T-cell, viewed under a scanning electron microscope. T-cells perform important functions in our immune system.
Oct. 26, 2016

Findings Show How AIDS Spread Across North America

The Atlas V rocket carrying the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft lifts off from Space Launch Complex 41 in Cape Canaveral, Florida.(Photo: Joel Kowsky/NASA)
Sept. 9, 2016

Bound for Bennu! OSIRIS-REx Launch Was 'Perfect'

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