Did a meteor impact trigger a landslide in the Grand Canyon?

July 15, 2025

an aerial view of a meteor crater under cloudy blue skies on a vast desert landscape

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Collaborations at the WEST Center drive innovation and national recognition

U.S. News & World Report recently ranked the University of Arizona No. 2 in the nation and No. 31 worldwide in water resources, recognition fueled by groundbreaking research at the WEST (Water & Energy Sustainable Technology) Center. WEST is advancing technologies for water reuse while training both military cadets and civilian operators to lead the future of water security.

A growing baby planet photographed for first time in a ring of darkness

Using a cutting-edge optics system developed at the University of Arizona, researchers have gotten a glimpse of what our solar system likely looked like during its infancy.

An ancient signpost: Minute fossils tell big story about arthropod evolution

A research team led by Nick Strausfeld at the University of Arizona made an unexpected discovery: The brain of Jianfengia, a creature that lived in the lower Cambrian, is very similar to that of living crustaceans. This places the extinct animal in the ancestry of insects and crustaceans, not spiders and their relatives, as had been previously assumed.