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Sleep research has focused on vertebrate mammals, which are only 3 percent of Earth's species. A UA graduate student in entomology is pioneering studies on sleep in wasps.
Once the economy of Alamos, Mexico, depended on silver. Now it depends on a slender tree, vara blanca. The tree currently is being harvested to extinction, which bodes ill for Alamos' economic future, a UA ecologist has discovered.
More than 3,000 ecologists will meet in Tucson Aug. 4 - 9 in a joint conference of the Ecological Society of America and Society for Ecological Restoration.
Bone Builders is a collaborative partnership for osteoporosis prevention that includes Cooperative Extension, the University of Arizona College of Public Health, county health departments and other agencies.
Scientists have used the National Science Foundation-University of Arizona Accelerator Mass Spectrometer to radiocarbon-date the actual parchment of the controversial "Vinland map." The parchment dates to AD 1434. It doesn't prove the map is genuine, but may challenge claims that the map is a fake.
Five teams of teachers are getting hands-on experience in research labs and industry during a three-week program sponsored by the University of Arizona and Pima Community College. The teachers will use this experience to develop lessons for their high school and middle school classrooms. By using real-world examples from the university and industry, they hope to encourage students to pursue careers in math, science and engineering.
Arizona and Utah geologists are the first to document that Grand Canyon's lava dams burst catastrophically. The Inner Gorge is essentially an infant slot canyon, they also conclude.
Diverse vegetation and agricultural crops contribute to a cooler, wetter climate in the Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states, according to a UA Hydrologist and a Colorado State University Research Scientist. Their findings indicate that some computer forecasts of future climates might be too dry and too warm.
With support from petroleum and pharmaceutical companies, two Arizona universities are bringing the foremost world conference in sulfur chemistry for the first time to the Western Hemisphere.
Scientists from across the globe will convene July 8-13 at the University of Arizona to annotate the full genome of a bacterium.