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UArizona Partners With French National Centre for Scientific Research to Establish France-Arizona Institute for Global Grand Challenges

April 14, 2021

The new institute, based at UArizona, will address critical research areas through large-scale international collaboration, innovation and exchange of resources.

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NASA's OSIRIS-REx Completes Final Tour of Asteroid Bennu

April 7, 2021

Mission scientists will compare the final shots of the asteroid Bennu with images taken before the touch-and-go maneuver, which kicked up dust and rocks.

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'Bug Brain Soup' Expands Menu for Scientists Studying Animal Brains

April 7, 2021

By mashing up brains from various insects, UArizona neuroscientists introduce a practical technique for quantifying the neurons that make up the brains of invertebrate animals.

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Longer, More Frequent Periods of Drought Plague Western United States

April 5, 2021

According to new UArizona-led research, the American West has received less rain and gotten hotter – and its dry periods have become longer and more variable – over the last 50 years.

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A Final Look At Bennu Before OSIRIS-REx Heads Home

April 1, 2021

The OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu's surface during October's sample collection.

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Engineers Use Confetti-Sized Device to Change Songbird Pitch, Improve Understanding of Human Speech

March 30, 2021

Researchers are hoping to learn more about human speech by studying songbirds, one of the few species that share humans' ability to learn new vocalizations.

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A grant from the Army Research Office will fund an extension of the Arizona Supersonic Wind Tunnel, making it capable of conducting experiments in transonic conditions. Stuart "Alex" Craig and Jesse Little received the funding through the U.S. Department

Investigating Boundary Layers in Hypersonic Flight

March 29, 2021

The UArizona the Department of Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering received more than $3 million in funding in support of their hypersonics research on objects that move faster than the speed of sound.

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Virtual Science Lecture Series to Examine Water's Cosmic Past and Challenging Future

March 29, 2021

Climate change, the Colorado River and even the asteroid Bennu will play a part in the 16th annual College of Science Lecture Series, which is focused on the science of water.

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Positive Societal Response to Past Climate Variability Sets an Example for Today

March 24, 2021

Humans' response to climate variability is not all doom and gloom. Past societies have found ways to thrive and innovate under climatic stresses, researchers say.

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Probing Alien Worlds: NASA's Pandora Mission Builds on UArizona Research

March 24, 2021

Tools and methods developed by Daniel Apai's research group at UArizona will help study the atmosphere of exoplanets as part of NASA's Pandora mission concept.

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Astronomers Image Magnetic Fields at the Edge of M87's Black Hole

March 24, 2021

A new image taken with the globe-spanning Event Horizon Telescope array reveals the black hole at the center of the M87 galaxy and its shadow in polarized light. The EHT network of telescopes includes the UArizona ARO Submillimeter Telescope on Mt. Graham in Arizona.

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Novel Coronavirus Circulated Undetected Months Before First COVID-19 Cases in Wuhan

March 18, 2021

A new study dates emergence of the virus that causes COVID-19 to as early as October 2019. Simulations also suggest that in most cases zoonotic viruses die out naturally before causing a pandemic.

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