News

As climate change affects conditions for growing local ingredients, your favorite hometown dish could taste different in the future. The Tasting Tomorrow project seeks to preserve family recipes in the face of climate change.

The awards totaled more than $1 million to eight interdisciplinary teams in the final year of Scialog: Signatures of Life in the Universe, an initiative launched in 2021 to catalyze fundamental science in the search for life beyond Earth.

Everything must go smoothly when the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft releases its capsule full of pristine asteroid material over the Utah desert in September. Members of the mission team gathered at Lockheed Martin in Colorado to rehearse recovering the capsule and its precious cargo.

Astronomers have long been puzzled by spiral arms seen around some infant stars. UArizona researchers have discovered a young exoplanet that could explain this phenomenon and provide clues about planetary formation.

During the pandemic, when the world experienced extended periods of unstructured time, creative types were less bored and more engaged with their thoughts than others, a new UArizona study finds.

UArizona has signed a Space Act Agreement with NASA's Johnson Space Center that will allow the university to engage extensively in human spaceflight missions.

“Enceladus may be one of our best chances to find extant life in our solar system,” says Regis Ferriere, a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona.

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have discovered a threadlike arrangement of 10 galaxies that existed just 830 million years after the Big Bang. The structure reveals clues and questions about the fundamental architecture of the universe.

UArizona is included on Money's list of The Best Colleges in America 2023. The university is also ranked No. 54 in the United States and No. 27 among public U.S. institutions in the 2024 QS World University Rankings.