Aug. 12, 2020 Successful Second Rehearsal Puts OSIRIS-REx on Path to Asteroid Sample Collection During its final practice run in preparation for sample collection at asteroid Bennu, the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft approached the surface closer than ever before.
Aug. 10, 2020 How Boundaries Become Bridges in Evolution The evolution of colorful feathers shines light on the missing link in evolution by natural selection, according to a new study published in Nature Communications.
Aug. 7, 2020 Researcher Studies Statins for Stroke Therapy A $2.8 million grant may help develop an improved therapeutic treatment for acute ischemic stroke patients to let them recover faster with fewer long-term complications.
Aug. 6, 2020 OSIRIS-REx is One Rehearsal Away from Touching Asteroid Bennu The matchpoint rehearsal will allow the University of Arizona-led OSIRIS-REx team to exercise nearly all systems before the sample collection event in the fall.
Aug. 6, 2020 No-Clog Toilet Paper, Weight-Loss Pet Food Among Award-Winning Student Innovations Tech Launch Arizona has awarded funding to five-student teams to develop inventions with the goal of bringing them to the public as impactful products to benefit society.
Aug. 5, 2020 Harnessing the Sun to Purify Concentrated Waste Streams A team of engineers and scientists is developing a solar-powered desalination system to recover water from concentrated waste streams with maximum efficiency.
Aug. 4, 2020 University of Arizona Awarded $26M to Architect the Quantum Internet The University of Arizona will lead a new National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center, called the Center for Quantum Networks, with core partners Harvard, MIT and Yale.
Aug. 3, 2020 Evidence Mounts that Brains Diverged from One Ancestral Arrangement Humans, mice and flies share the same fundamental genetic mechanisms that regulate the formation and function of certain brain areas, according to a new study.
July 29, 2020 UArizona Reports Record Number of Startups for Fiscal Year 2020 With 19 new companies added to its roster last fiscal year, the university has now launched more than 100 startups since revamping its commercialization operation in late 2012.
July 28, 2020 Researchers Detangle Protein Interaction Implicated in Down Syndrome and Alzheimer's New findings by UArizona chemists Wolfgang Peti and Rebecca Page provide a foundation to better understand and treat two neurological disorders.
