Science and Technology

The UA and the Australian National University have agreed to refurbish a little-used telescope at the Siding Spring Observatory (near Coonabarabran) with modern detectors and computers to carry out a search for potentially hazardous asteroids.

During the past 30 years, microchip companies have developed manufacturing processes by combining some understanding of their underlying physics and chemistry with a tremendous amount of iterating. Engineers call this kind of educated guessing the "Edisonian Approach."

Scientists are delighted with photos of Earth's moon snapped by cameras aboard the Cassini spacecraft during its recent Earth flyby. The test was conducted Aug.18 (GMT), when Cassini flew more than 700 miles over the Pacific Ocean.

University of Arizona alumnus John Lombardi has won one of the 1999 R&D 100 Awards, which have been called "the Nobel Prizes of Applied Research." He developed the material called Aqua-Port, which allows engineers to construct complex shapes that could be produced in no other way.

Chemists at the University of Arizona in Tucson may be closer than ever to stopping HIV (human immunodeficiency virus). They are using a unique approach based on understanding the interactions of the virus with cells at the most fundamental, molecular level.

The University of Notre Dame announced today that it has joined the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) project. With this new relationship, Notre Dame becomes the third U.S. university system involved in the project, along with the University of Arizona and Ohio State University.

New data from the Lunar Prospector spacecraft supports mounting evidence that the moon formed in a way unique to this solar system.

This latest report comes from scientists who measured the Earth_s magnetic field near the moon using instruments mounted on Lunar Prospector.

A current study reveals new information about lo, the Jovian moon_s red, green and blue auroral lights and how they relate to its tenuous atmosphere.

In the ATLAS Laboratory at the University of Arizona in Tucson, engineers are creating traffic systems for the 21st century.

The University of Arizona in Tucson is the lead institution in a new $16 million, multi-university center that will develop ways to efficiently manage water resources in semi-arid regions.