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Scientists couldn't be happier with the first image of Jupiter, received yesterday, from the Cassini spacecraft which is closing in on a fly-by of the huge planet. Carolyn C. Porco of the UA heads the 14-member Cassini imaging team.
UA Spacewatch Project founders Tom Gehrels and Robert McMillan just realized a 20-year dream. Their hope for a 72-inch telescope that electronically scans the skies for asteroids is now reality.
The Cassini science team that will use radar to map Saturn's moon, Titan, in 2005 now includes Ralph Lorenz of the Lunar & Planetary Lab.
The NSF-funded CATTS program is helping some UA students gain valuable teaching experience, while helping improve mathematics and science education in local K-12 schools.
Fire history expert Thomas Swetnam, director of the University of Arizona Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research, hopes this summer's experience will encourage forest managers to consider the climate prognosis before using such volatile preventive medicine as prescribed fire in the future.
UA Professor Farhang Shadman has won the Semiconductor Research Corporation's Landmark Innovation Award for his research in semiconductor technology, especially in the area of environmentally benign manufacturing.
When it comes to sex, most plants have the best of both worlds: Their sex organs - their flowers - are both male and female. Now two UA botanists have found how other plants evolve single-sex flowers so they don't self-fertilize, thereby avoiding the pitfalls of inbreeding depression. They report it in tomorrow's issue of Science.
Identifying good bulls for dairy herds is time-consuming and expensive. To help change that, UA animal scientist Sue Denise is studying the regions of chromosomes that affect performance characteristics in cattle.
Agriculture in Arizona is a $6.3 billion dollar industry. In response to growers' needs, the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences created its Desert Vegetable Crop Production Program (DVPP).
A Steward Observatory astronomy team used its camera to get the first wide-field picture with the giant UA/Smithsonian telescope on Mount Hopkins, Ariz. As good as it is - the best is yet to come.
