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University of Arizona Spacewatch astronomers at Kitt Peak, Ariz., have rediscovered the last "lost" numbered minor planet, the Minor Planet Center located at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory in Cambridge, Mass., has found.
Future scientists will examine basics of ethical dilemmas that will impact their careers.
University of Arizona Regents' Professor J. Roger P. Angel today was elected to the National Academy of Sciences, one of the most prestigious honors in American science.
Against great odds, UA staff scientist Neil Jacobsen and his Mexican colleagues are installing a first superconducting NMR instrument in the state of Sonora, Mexico
The Smithsonian is adding a UA Mars-mapping project to its permanent collection on information technology. And the scientists behind the project are up for a Computerworld Smithsonian Award.
After years of work, planning, design and redesign on the Space Infrared Telescope Facility, astronomers soon will get first-ever views of the far-infrared universe. UA is supplying the first true far-infrared detector array camera on the mission.
The American Chemical Society has awarded its highest prize given specifically to a woman for outstanding service and research in chemistry to UA Professor F. Ann Walker.
Automobile airbags use a chemical compound that is so toxic that even small amounts can kill. Yet trucks loaded with hundreds of pounds of sodium azide routinely travel the nation's highways, and discarded airbags sit like environmental time bombs in the nation's auto junkyards, a University of Arizona scientist says.
Mobile elements, bits of DNA popularly called 'jumping' genes, have been maligned as only 'junk' or 'selfish' genes. However, transposable elements occasionally play a useful role in evolution, including human evolution, says UA's Margaret G. Kidwell.
Scientists have 'shotgun' sequenced the whole genome of the geneticists' darling - the fruit fly. It will dramatically change the way many scientists study insects. And it bodes well for the on-going effort to sequence the human genome.
