Feb. 14, 2019 UA Study Suggests Possibility of Recent Underground Volcanism on Mars A new study conducted by UA planetary scientists suggests volcanoes may have been recently boiling deep below the surface of the Red Planet.
Feb. 13, 2019 Seeing the Forest Through the Lidar Lens A team of ecologists used lidar technology to scan the leaf canopy of an Amazon forest and found that trees responded to drought in some surprising ways.
Feb. 8, 2019 Pulses from a Dead Star, Little Green Men and a Historic Discovery In 1969, UA scientists were the first to detect the optical flash from a pulsar — a stellar corpse thought to pack at least one-and-a-half times the mass of our sun into a neutron star.
Jan. 28, 2019 Greenland’s Southwest Ice Sheet Particularly Sensitive to Warming The ice fields of southwest Greenland are becoming sensitive to the North Atlantic Oscillation and will become a major contributor to sea level rise as global warming progresses.
Jan. 28, 2019 UA Benefits From Astronomy Superstar's 'Failed Retirement' The awards keep coming for Robert C. Kennicutt Jr., who was recently honored by both the National Academy of Sciences and the Royal Astronomical Society.
Jan. 25, 2019 Tucson Entrepreneurs Launch Second Fund to Advance UA-Related Startups UAVenture Capital has launched a second venture capital fund designed specifically to help finance the commercialization of emerging and disruptive technologies formulated by UA researchers, faculty and students.
Jan. 25, 2019 Interdisciplinary UA Researchers Get Tangled Up in Quantum Computing UA researchers are building a quantum hub known as Inquire, which will be the world's first shared research and training instrument to help researchers in diverse fields benefit from quantum resources.
Jan. 24, 2019 Prolonged Spaceflight Could Weaken Astronauts’ Immune Systems Astronauts who embarked on spaceflights lasting longer than six months experienced a decrease in the functionality of NK cells, which play an important role of the immune system by killing cancerous cells and preventing viruses from reactivating.
Jan. 16, 2019 Water, Not Temperature, Limits Global Forest Growth as Climate Warms The changes are most evident in northern climates and at high altitudes, reports a team that includes UA scientists from the Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research.
Jan. 15, 2019 'Searching for Certainty' is Theme of UA Science Lecture Series The UA College of Science's popular annual lecture series marks its 14th year this year.
