Growth rings in fish give clues about fluctuations in climate over decades Jan. 17, 2024 In the same lab where university scientists invented ways to study climate history in tree rings, associate professor Bryan Black is using a similar technique – but with tiny fish bones. Read more at UArizona News Image
NASA's OSIRIS-REx curation team clears hurdle to access remaining Bennu sample Jan. 11, 2024 NASA scientists last week removed the two stuck fasteners on the sample container that had prevented researchers from accessing much of OSIRIS-REx's asteroid Bennu sample. Read more at UArizona News Image
Looking through the lens of time with the Millennium Camera Jan. 8, 2024 With a new installation on Tumamoc Hill, a University of Arizona experimental philosopher wants to encourage people to imagine 1,000 years into the future – and plan accordingly. Read more at UArizona News Image
UArizona-led asteroid sampling mission's new journey: OSIRIS-APEX Jan. 8, 2024 Under the leadership of the University of Arizona's Dani Mendoza DellaGiustina, the former OSIRIS-REx spacecraft sets off on a journey to study asteroid Apophis and take advantage of the asteroid's 2029 flyby of Earth. Read more at UArizona News Image
Arizona’s Largest Mathematics Education Event Celebrating 20 Years Jan. 8, 2024 For 20 years, MEAD has welcomed, engaged, and appreciated thousands of educators, both in-state and beyond. An impressive list of sponsors ensures that all Arizona teachers can experience research-based, high quality professional development at no cost. Read more Image
New project helps UArizona boost access to hearing health care Jan. 4, 2024 A new partnership among the Arizona Commission for the Deaf and the Hard of Hearing and the three state universities provides free hearing health care for eligible people age 21 or older who do not have insurance. Read more at UArizona News Image
Washington Post: What an Arizona tree reveals about the hottest year on record — and what lies ahead. Dec. 21, 2023 With its stout orange trunk and long, graceful needles, the tree looks like any other ponderosa pine growing on Mount Bigelow. But a sliver of its wood, taken amid Earth’s warmest year on record, shows that this tree has a story to tell — and a warning to offer. Read more Image
Sweating the small stuff: UArizona scientists have begun to study samples from asteroid Bennu Dec. 20, 2023 At the university's Kuiper-Arizona Laboratory for Astromaterials Analysis, a suite of instruments allows researchers to study the particles collected by the OSIRIS-REx mission the down to the atomic scale. Read more at UArizona News Image
NIH research grant awarded to UArizona College of Science to decipher relationships between synapse function and growth control pathways Dec. 19, 2023 The research will help determine the underlying causes of disruption at the biochemical, cellular, and functional levels, which will ultimately inform how synapses grow as animals develop and how this may go awry in neurodevelopmental diseases. Read more Image
Scientists might be using a flawed strategy to predict how species will fare under climate change Dec. 18, 2023 A new study involving University of Arizona researchers suggests change is happening faster than trees can adapt. The finding offers "a word of caution" for future researchers. Read more at UArizona News Image