Nov. 6, 2018 Building Water-Efficient Cities Requires Collaboration To create livable, aesthetically pleasing cities that are also water-efficient, UA experts say water managers and urban planners will need to increase their coordination efforts.
Oct. 28, 2018 UA Joins Research Coalition on Climate As part of the University Climate Change Coalition, the UA will collaborate with other top research institutions dedicated to finding practical solutions to climate challenges.
Oct. 29, 2018 Genetic Search Reveals Key to Resistance in Cotton Pest Researchers have pinpointed a dominant genetic mutation that makes cotton bollworms, one of the world’s most destructive crop pests, resistant to genetically engineered cotton.
Oct. 24, 2018 Rare Blue Asteroid Reveals Itself During Fly-By An international team led by Teddy Kareta, a doctoral student at the UA's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, investigated (3200) Phaethon, a bizarre asteroid that sometimes behaves like a comet, and found it even more enigmatic than previously thought.
Oct. 18, 2018 Helping Minority Students Overcome Barriers to Graduate Education A $1.075 million grant from the National Science Foundation allows the UA to continue helping underrepresented students through the Bridge to the Doctorate Program.
Oct. 17, 2018 UA and Microsoft Create Cloud Infrastructure Partnership to Train Tomorrow's Leaders The new Cloud Infrastructure Renewal Center will focus on developing sustainable data centers and educating students to engineer, operate and manage them.
Oct. 15, 2018 Tracking the Movement of the Tropics 800 Years into the Past A UA-led research team used tree rings to trace the north-south shifts of the tropics back 800 years. They found that periods of tropical expansion coincided with severe droughts.
Oct. 10, 2018 Drier, Less Predictable Environment May Have Spurred Human Evolution Sediment cores provide evidence of a variable but progressively drying climate coincides with a major shift in stone-tool-making abilities and the appearance of modern Homo sapiens.
Oct. 16, 2018 Data on Demand: Creating a Search Engine for Microbiome Sciences The Hurwitz Lab corrals big data sets into a more searchable form to help scientists study microorganisms and how they relate to each other, their hosts and the environment.
Aug. 28, 2018 Q&A With the Scientists Behind OSIRIS-REx's 'Eyes' Using its multipurpose camera designed at the UA, NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft spied its target asteroid for the first time from about 1.4 million miles away. UANews spoke with three OSIRIS-REx mission scientists who planned the first-light image of Bennu. The mission is well on track, and the spacecraft is expected to reach the asteroid Bennu in December.