May 8, 2023 UArizona engineers lead $70M project to turn desert shrub into rubber The project, funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Bridgestone, focuses on growing and processing guayule (pronounced why-OO-lee), a hardy, perennial shrub that could be an alternative source of natural rubber.
May 5, 2023 Becoming a multiplanetary species: Crew completes first mission in pressurized habitat at Biosphere 2 A four-person crew sealed themselves in an air-tight pressurized habitat, called the Space Analog for the Moon and Mars, for six days to practice what it might be like to live on the surface of another celestial body.
April 26, 2023 Very active hurricane season expected for 2023, UArizona experts say UArizona researchers are forecasting nine hurricanes this year, five of which are expected to be major. Since 2014, hurricane activity has been accurately predicted by a model created by UArizona professor Xubin Zeng and his former graduate student Kyle Davis.
April 26, 2023 UArizona ranks 29 among top 100 universities granted US utility patents in 2022 UArizona inventors were issued 92 patents in 2022 for innovations that included a technique for imaging cancer cells, a wearable 3D augmented reality display and an antioxidant sunscreen.
April 19, 2023 100 years ago, 'telescope of huge size' launched UArizona's leading role in astronomy On April 23, 1923, the university celebrated a new, 36-inch telescope that would kick off major astronomical research. Steward Observatory will be rededicated this weekend in honor of its 100-year anniversary.
April 14, 2023 Icy moonquakes: Surface shaking could trigger landslides Many of the ice-encrusted moons orbiting the giant planets in the far reaches of our solar system are known to be geologically active. Quakes could be the source of the mysteriously smooth terrain on the moons circling Jupiter and Saturn, according to a new study led by a UArizona graduate student.
April 12, 2023 Scientists develop new way to measure wind Atmospheric scientists have developed an algorithm that uses data from water vapor movements to measure wind. This could help predict extreme events like hurricanes.
April 11, 2023 UArizona researchers to help track deadly fungus in Arizona wastewater Wastewater-based epidemiology's potential was brought to bear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, it could help public health officials get ahead of the drug-resistant fungus Candida auris.
April 11, 2023 How cities use energy to regulate temperature – just like mammals A UArizona undergraduate looked at cities as living things to investigate how human energy use changes with rising temperatures. Her research could help save lives from heat waves.
March 28, 2023 Astronomers race to make sense of brightest gamma ray burst ever seen UArizona astronomers have joined an international effort to study the aftermath of the brightest flash of gamma rays ever observed. Observations involving UArizona telescopes and instruments provide astronomers with a "cosmic lab" to study how massive stars die.
