Sept. 26, 2019 Startup Licenses Carbon Fiber Tech to Treat Broken Bones, Receives Funding An Arizona professor has has invented a flexible carbon fiber fabric designed to be inserted inside and around a fractured bone. The technology has been licensed to a startup and has already received venture capital funding to take it forward.
Sept. 26, 2019 $3M Grant to Create Cybersecurity Modeled After Human Body University of Arizona electrical and computer engineering researchers are training a future cybersecurity workforce and creating bioinspired methods for keeping computers secure.
Sept. 26, 2019 Building a Pathway from Tribal College to Neuroscience Laboratories A $1.3 million grant from the National Institutes of Health will help a team that includes University of Arizona researchers develop a program to help train Navajo students in neuroscience programs.
Sept. 25, 2019 Students Tackle 21st Century Sustainability Challenges on the Navajo Nation UA students working on food, energy and water insecurity among Indigenous communities build an off-the-grid water filtration system on the Navajo Nation.
Sept. 23, 2019 Iron Magma Could Explain Psyche’s Density Puzzle Volcanism has always intrigued humanity. Less than 50 years ago, scientists discovered cryovolcanism – ice volcanoes on other worlds. Now, researchers may have identified volcanoes of molten metal.
Sept. 23, 2019 UA Scientists to Examine Food Safety Practices After E. coli Outbreak University of Arizona researchers are participating in a study to determine how environmental factors impact the risk of produce becoming contaminated, with a goal of enhancing the safety of produce grown in the Yuma area.
Sept. 18, 2019 Study of Ancient Climate Suggests Warming Could Accelerate as CO2 Levels Rise A model used to assess climate change suggests that with increasing carbon dioxide levels, the Earth may warm more rapidly than previously thought.
Sept. 18, 2019 Brain May Not Need Body Movements to Learn Virtual Spaces A new study conducted by the University of Arizona and the University of California, Davis enhances our understanding of how the brain learns in virtual reality.
Sept. 17, 2019 Sound of the Future: A New Analog to Quantum Computing University of Arizona engineers researching the emerging field of phononics are using soundwaves to search through big data with more stability and ease.
Sept. 13, 2019 Biosphere 2 Rain Forest Closed During Drought Experiment Drought will soon descend on the University of Arizona’s Biosphere 2 rain forest, and an international research team will be ready with an array of instruments to record what unfurls under the glass.
