Feb. 24, 2024 Steward Observatory balloon mission breaks NASA record 22 miles above Antarctica Seeking clues about the life cycle of stars, the GUSTO balloon mission, led by university astronomer Chris Walker, breaks the record as NASA's longest-flying heavy-lift balloon mission.
Feb. 21, 2024 The science of leap day – how it works and why we do it Ahead of Feb. 29, UArizona Regents Professor of planetary sciences Renu Malhotra explains why we need leap year, why we skip it once a century and why we sometimes need to add leap seconds.
Feb. 21, 2024 How a team of students uses technology to preserve and share Black history The University of Arizona Center for Digital Humanities partners with clients such as the Tucson Center for Black Life to both preserve historical artifacts and make them widely available as digital exhibits.
Feb. 20, 2024 Giant Magellan Telescope brings new partner into the fold Taiwan's leading astronomy institute joins Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea and the United States in building one of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes.
Feb. 20, 2024 'The future is fungal': Research finds fungi that live in healthy plants are sensitive to climate change The findings, more than a decade in the making, reveal a rich diversity of beneficial fungi living in boreal forest trees, with implications about the health of forests.
Feb. 14, 2024 UArizona climatologist explains how mining can be part of a sustainable future Joellen Russell, a renowned University of Arizona climatologist, will join a panel of experts at a symposium Thursday to discuss the university's role in establishing mining practices that help create a more sustainable future.
Feb. 7, 2024 Arizona Online bachelor's programs ranked in top 3% by U.S. News & World Report Arizona Online earned several top-10 rankings across a variety of categories in U.S. News & World Report's annual ranking of online programs.
Feb. 7, 2024 Why you're so stressed out about finding the perfect Valentine's Day gift In this Q&A, Diego Guevara Beltran, a postdoctoral fellow who studies factors affecting empathy and well-being, talks about the psychology behind the stress of gift giving.
Jan. 31, 2024 Modern bird brains reveal evolutionary history of flight, dating back to the dinosaurs Scientists, including one from the University of Arizona, pinpointed birds' cerebellums as key to the evolution of flight by comparing images of today's birds' brains with dinosaur fossils.
Jan. 17, 2024 Growth rings in fish give clues about fluctuations in climate over decades In the same lab where university scientists invented ways to study climate history in tree rings, associate professor Bryan Black is using a similar technique – but with tiny fish bones.
