Arizona Daily Star Oct. 2, 2018 Pulitzer Prize winner Colson Whitehead headlines this month's Tucson Humanities Festival The 2018 Tucson Humanities Festival will examine how information that's withheld and obscured has impacted human cultures.
Inquisitr Oct. 1, 2018 NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft performs it first asteroid approach maneuver ahead of reaching Bennu After chasing Bennu for two years, the UA-led OSIRIS-REx mission prepares for the upcoming rendezvous on Dec. 3.
Wired Oct. 1, 2018 The lie generator: Inside the 'Black Mirror' world of polygraph job screenings "The disparity between them suggests the test is not being used in a way that is at all reliable," says John Allen, a professor of psychology at the UA.
Arizona Daily Star Sept. 29, 2018 New director of Tumamoc Hill lab has big plans for research center, community landmark Ben Wilder, director of the UA's Desert Laboratory on Tumamoc Hill, discusses his plans to honor the history of the hill and re-establish it as a leader in desert ecology.
FiveThirtyEight Sept. 28, 2018 Why humans are bad at spotting lies "The best estimate, and that's from a lot of studies all accumulated, is that we're about 54 percent accurate," said the UA's Judee Burgoon.
NBC News Sept. 28, 2018 Skull-shaped 'death comet' asteroid will fly by Earth after Halloween The UA's Vishnu Reddy discusses asteroid 2015 TB145, which will fly past Earth at a distance of 25 million miles on Nov. 11.
The Mercury News Sept. 27, 2018 Interview with UA President Robert C. Robbins UA President Robert C. Robbins discusses a wide range of topics with Pac-12 Hotline columnist Jon Wilner.
The New York Times Sept. 27, 2018 Not all women have a clear answer for how sexual assault affected them. That doesn’t mean it had no effect. "If you are too upset, you are crazy. If you are not upset enough, people don't believe you were raped," said UA Regents' Professor Mary Koss.
The Atlantic Sept. 26, 2018 What surveys dating back decades reveal about date rape Mary Koss, a Regents' Professor of Public Health at the UA, writes about how decades of research shows that women have been reluctant to report their sexual assaults.
Science News Sept. 26, 2018 Christopher Hamilton explores the architecture of other worlds Christopher Hamilton, a planetary scientist at the UA, was named on a list of "Scientists to Watch" by Science News.