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photo of wildfire burning a log on the ground in a forest

7 Things You Didn’t Know about Wildfire

Aug. 2, 2017

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Study Finds Molecular Explanation for Poor Symptom Control among Obese Asthmatics

July 13, 2017

What's an asteroid? an image of the earth bigger than an asteroid in the asteroid belt. The selected asteroid has the 3 main elements that make up an asteroid from the periodic table overlaid.

What Is An Asteroid?

June 28, 2017

telescope built by University of Arizona students sees first light

First New Telescope in 20 Years Opens on UA Campus

June 27, 2017

Matt Kaplan and new worker reviewing computer read out

How a UA Lab Jumpstarted a National Phenomenon in Home DNA Ancestry Testing

June 18, 2017

So You Want to Analyze Asteroid Dirt

May 18, 2017

Dr. Vishnu Reddy's Design Day team poses with one of two telescopes they designed and built. This one will be installed in the Kuiper Building on University of Arizona campus and will be used to monitor the movement of satellites.

Undergraduate Students Build Telescopes to Track Space Junk

May 16, 2017

Using less than a third of the money it’d take to buy them off the shelf, five UA undergraduates built two telescopes for satellite observation—one of which will live in a once abandoned observatory.

Slack Chat: What's Desert Living Got to Do With Good Eating?

April 21, 2017

Video: Turning Algae Into Jet Fuel

April 4, 2017

Researcher at the university of Arizona examining a wood block sample from the Tree Ring lab

Radiocarbon Dating Gets a Postmodern Makeover

March 30, 2017

By developing new ways to use radiocarbon in tree rings, a UA dendrochronologist builds on the legacies of scientists before her, including the famed polymath Andrew Douglass.