May 1, 2019 Liverman Testifies Before House Climate Committee UA geographer Diana Liverman outlined the impacts of global warming to the Southwestern U.S. and emphasized the urgency of reducing emissions to limit warming.
May 1, 2019 $36,250 in Prizes Awarded at Engineering Design Day The top team won the $5,000 grand prize for designing a system to help lost hikers find their way home using a mesh network of solar-powered beacons and a cellphone app.
April 29, 2019 Climate, grasses and teeth: the evolution of South America mammals Armadillos as big as Volkswagens and other grass-eating mammals became more diverse in South America about 6 million years ago because of shifts in atmospheric circulation.
April 29, 2019 Researchers Find Ice Feature on Saturn’s Giant Moon While searching for the origins of Titan’s methane and the organics that coat its surface, UA researchers made the unexpected discovery of a large ice feature on Saturn's largest moon.
April 29, 2019 Ashes of a Dying Star Hold Clues about Solar System's Birth A dust grain forged in a stellar explosion predating our solar system reveals new insights about how stars end their lives and provide the building blocks of new stars and planets.
April 29, 2019 What Deep Learning Reveals About Saturn’s Storms A "deep learning" approach to detecting storms on Saturn show the vast regions affected by storms and that dark storm clouds contain material swept up from the lower atmosphere by strong vertical winds.
April 25, 2019 Startup to Bring Holographic Video Glasses Into View EARDG Photonics Inc. has adopted technologies invented at the UA College of Optical Sciences that represent a leap forward in augmented reality display glasses using 3D holographic video.
April 24, 2019 Students Showcase Impactful Tech at Design Day Engineering Design Day will feature inventions to fight fires, reduce cyclist fatalities and combat child abuse, as well as more than 100 other projects to make the world better.
April 24, 2019 Bird Feathers Offer Insight into How Evolution Works A UA team shows that evolution is driven by dependency on other species within ecological communities – testing a long-held idea of the late UA professor George Gaylord Simpson.
April 23, 2019 Which Car Crashes Cause Traumatic Brain Injury? New research from aerospace and mechanical engineering professor Samy Missoum details a new method for calculating the probability of a TBI due to a car accident.