Sept. 27, 2018 Startup Licenses UA-invented Aquatic Animal Growth Assay How can farmers of aquatic animals quickly and efficiently select the top producing stocks for breeding? Benjamin Renquist has invented a new assay that answers this question, offering an easy-to-use assay that has been licensed to startup GenetiRate.
Sept. 17, 2018 Measuring species traits to monitor biodiversity Management of global biodiversity requires up-to-date, reliable and comparable biodiversity data, and essential biodiversity variables such as species traits are way to monitor the global state of biodiversity.
Sept. 14, 2018 Ceres Takes Life an Ice Volcano at a Time In a new study by UA planetary scientists, observations prove that ice volcanoes on the dwarf planet Ceres generate enough material to fill one movie theater each year.
Sept. 12, 2018 UA Engineering Students Help a Fellow Wildcat Walk After suffering an aneurysm that left him in a wheelchair 19 years ago, Jeffrey Bristol is getting some assistance in retraining his brain and muscles to walk.
Sept. 10, 2018 Fierce Winds Quench Wildfire-like Star Birth in Far-flung Galaxy Astronomers have detected the most-distant galactic "wind" of molecules ever observed, seen when the universe was only one billion years old.
Aug. 31, 2018 Mud from the Deep Sea Reveals Clues about Ancient Monsoon UA researchers accessed untapped clues about monsoon activity in the Sonoran desert during the last ice age to help predict how regional climates may respond to future conditions.
Aug. 30, 2018 Prehistoric Vegetation Helps Predict Future Ecosystems The current warming from climate change may drive a dramatic change in vegetation within the next 100-150 years unless greenhouse-gas emissions are reduced, reports a UA-led international team.
Aug. 24, 2018 OSIRIS-REx Captures First Glimpse of Asteroid Bennu Using its multipurpose camera designed at the UA, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spied its target asteroid, Bennu, for the first time from about 1.4 million miles away.
Aug. 27, 2018 UA Licenses Deception-Detecting AVATAR to Startup UA researchers have developed AVATAR, an interactive system that interviews border crossers, monitors thousands of physical signals and alerts agents when it detects deception.
Aug. 17, 2018 Keeping Arizona’s Animal Agriculture Industry Safe The University of Arizona Veterinary Diagnostic Laboratory is on the front line of protecting the state against foreign animal and zoonotic diseases.