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Image of black hole in the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists marvel at new black hole image

May 12, 2022 The University of Arizona-led Event Horizon telescope project captured the object in the center of the Milky Way.
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are designed to calibrate the spacecraft's optics.

Get ready for spectacular star show from the James Webb Space Telescope

May 10, 2022 Project engineers are fine tuning the instrument's optics for targeted images.
Still image from Oct. 20 video of the OSIRIS-REx sample collection event, with rocks flying around the arm of TAGSAM after it makes contact with the surface of asteroid Bennu.

NASA calls University of Arizona a "crown jewel"

May 8, 2022 University students and researchers work with NASA on a number of high-profile projects.
Ice core samples along with tree rings yield information from thousands of years ago.

University of Arizona researcher gets closer to solving ancient mystery

May 5, 2022 Studies of tree rings and ice core samples are providing clues to what happened to Minoan civilization in 1500 B. C.
Researchers are masking medicines to flow alongside red blood cells and avoid the body's defense systems.

Biomedical engineers sneak medicines past immune system

May 4, 2022 University of Arizona researchers are developing ways to target medication more efficiently to fight disease.
OSIRIS-REx on its return journey to Earth.

NASA to extend OSIRIS-REx spacecraft for a mission to a second asteroid

Apr 25, 2022 The University of Arizona-led mission will rendezvous with the Asteroid Apophis in 2029
Apollo 16 lunar exploration, April 1972.

Tucson-based scientists giving moon rocks a second look

Apr 25, 2022 NASA's Apollo 16 crew originally collected the samples 50 years ago.
Gov. Ducey's desalination plant proposal is designed to relieve pressure on water supplied by Lake Mead.

Ducey desalination proposal carries hefty price tag

Apr 18, 2022 Experts think it will cost $60 million a year to operate.
Four tech companies will have access to the laboratory at Biosphere 2 for research.

Biosphere 2 starts a tech incubator

Apr 13, 2022 The laboratory welcomed four tech startups in a ribbon cutting ceremony.
LRO (Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter) will photograph the moon crash site.

University of Arizona students await photographs of moon crash site

Mar 17, 2022 They identified and traced the path of China-launched rocket that impacted the surface.
Minerals on display at the University of Arizona.

College of Science Lecture Series returns to Centennial Hall

Mar 8, 2022 A springtime tradition is back on the University of Arizona campus.
University of Arizona students interact with an autonomous food delivery "robot" operated by Grubhub and supplied by the Russian conglomerate Yandex.

University of Arizona parks Russian robots due to conflict

Mar 3, 2022 Grubhub, UA will "secure a new robot courier delivery solution."

Intelligence gathering incorporates social media in Ukraine

Feb 22, 2022 A University of Arizona information professor notes almost anyone can track Russian military movements online.
Sparse shelves at the University of Arizona's Arizona Market Nov. 17, 2021.

University of Arizona-backed research is finding the source for feelings of hunger

Feb 17, 2022 The part of the inner brain that produces sensations of hunger and fullness is familiar to neuroscientists.
Image of a full moon from NASA.

University of Arizona astronomy researchers track space junk to the Moon

Feb 15, 2022 The spent rocket stage is expected to crash on the far side in March.
A screenshot from the trailer for the movie Moonfall depicts a space shuttle crew at launch. The set, a former NASA shuttle training simulator, is now on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum.

Former shuttle cockpit simulator comes to Tucson

Feb 7, 2022 Astronauts trained on it, then it became a movie set.

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