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Working in research labs in Europe is truly rewarding, says a UA undergraduate biology student in the university's BRAVO! program.
Since 1924, Steward Observatory has been hosting public evening astronomy lectures. 1920s audiences would be shocked by what the astronomers are saying now.
The University of Minnesota announced today that it has joined the Large Binocular Telescope (LBT) project. Minnesota will receive viewing time on the LBT through an alliance with Research Corporation, a Tucson science advancement foundation that is a partner in the LBT.
A team at the University of Arizona Lunar and Planetary Laboratory (LPL) is gripped by the special frenzied excitement that comes with packing up a major space experiment scheduled to reach Mars next October.
A new greenhouse at the UA's Campus Agricultural Center features controlled environment agriculture, which emphasizes the design of cost-effective systems, processes and equipment that will generate high yields of quality produce in greenhouses.
Cassini has sent back new pictures of Jupiter and its moons Europa, Callisto and Ganymede. Cassini Imaging Team members at UA are working hard to deliver them throughout Christmas week.
Jupiter's moon, Io, hangs in front of its planet like a Christmas ornament. Cassini Imaging scientists will release new pictures through Christmas Day, and again beginning Dec. 28, says UA's Carolyn Porco, Cassini Imaging Team leader.
A striking color picture showing mottled cloud patterns near Jupiter's north pole begins a sequence of more frequent release of Jupiter images from NASA's Cassini spacecraft as the craft gets nearer to the planet over the next two weeks. Cassini Imaging Team members process the images at the UA Lunar and Planetary Lab in Tucson.
UA physicist Raymond Goldstein has won an international prize awarded every two years to an outstanding young researcher in nonlinear science.
UA undergraduate students this week began mobilizing on very fast track to launch at least one miniature satellite from Baikonur, Kazakhstan, 11 months from now. It's the first step in a new program that UA and Stanford University faculty agree ultimately could send flotillas of scientifically productive mini-satellites as far as Mars.