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Astronomer Ewine van Dishoeck - winner of the $1.2 million 2000 Spinoza Award, considered the Dutch "Nobel Prize" --- will give the 2001 Marc Aaronson Memorial Lecture Friday, April 20 at the UA Steward Observatory. Her talk, "From Molecules to Planets: The Realm of Astrochemistry" will be at 7 p.m. in the Steward Observatory Lecture Hall (Room N210). It is free and open to the public.
Galileo and Cassini spacecraft last winter jointly photographed a 250-mile high volcanic plume near the north pole of Jupiter's moon Io. Scientists were astounded.
While winter rainfall was above average overall in southeastern Arizona and southern New Mexico, drier conditions in these areas pose increased fire danger, according to Tim Brown, director of the Program for Climate, Ecosystem, and Fire Applications (CEFA) at Desert Research Institute in Reno, Nev. Fire managers and climate experts will plan for the next fire season at a March 28 meeting at UA.
UA neurobiologists detail how airborne odors dictate brain activity and behavior in moths in today's issue of Nature (March 22). The moth is believed to be a model system for all animals -- including humans.
When birds' beaks change to match new foods, their songs also change, potentially affecting their ability to recognize mates, according to new research.
Guided by "supramolecules" found in nature, scientists are designing supramolecules with potential uses ranging from toxic waste removal to new pharmaceuticals to molecular computing.
New views of the largest active lava flow field in the solar system are among Galielo images UA scientists have analyzed. NASA is releasing the images today.
The Southern Arizona Section of the American Chemical Society (SASACS) has selected Teressa Potter as winner of its 2000 High School Chemistry Teaching Award. Potter is chemistry, anatomy and physiology teacher, as well as Science Department chair, at Rio Rico High School in Rio Rico, Ariz.
Worldwide shortages of fossil fuel combined with concerns about the greenhouse effect are creating demand for "green," or environmentally friendly, fuels. One possible fuel source, dried municipal sewage sludge (MSS) is a potential health hazard according to a study by University of Arizona researchers published this week in Nature.
Working independently, two teams of astronomers have used the new 6.5-meter MMT telescope on Mount Hopkins, Ariz., to discover a massive black hole -- the first ever found in the galactic halo, thousands of light years above the Milky Way galactic plane.
