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Sunrise over Mt. Lemmon in the Coronado National Forest.

Study: Slow Growth Ahead for the Forests of the Southwest

Dec 21, 2018 The UA report shows a decline in productivity in the 21st century as the climate warms.
Rare desert winter snow on saguaro cactus in the Catalina Mountains.

Winter Solstice Celebrations

Dec 20, 2018 The traditional beginning of winter marks a season of holidays for many cultures and religions.
Photo By: Aliscella, age 10, Boys & Girls Clubs of Tucson.

Tucson Youth Put National Parks in Focus

Dec 19, 2018 Also on Arizona Spotlight: Visit the Center for Compassion Studies; NASA pioneer Dee O'Hara interview; Adiba Nelson talks "From Period to Postpartum"; holiday traditions old and new.

Study: Americans Are Getting Less Sleep, Especially Blacks And Hispanics

Dec 17, 2018 A researcher says disparities could exacerbate social and health inequalities.
Above Yosemite National Park in California, looking out the window of a Twin Otter aircraft carrying NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory on April 3, 2013.

UA Scientists Identifying Exactly Where Snowmass is Declining

Dec 13, 2018 Findings suggest the West has lost significant snowpack over last three decades.
Scientists announce water findings in the clay of the asteroid Bennu in this still image from a livestream of the American Geophysical Union's 2018 Fall meeting. From left, Jeffrey Grossman, OSIRIS-REx program scientist at NASA Headquarters; Dante Lauretta, OSIRIS-REx principal investigator at the University of Arizona; Amy Simon, OVIRS Deputy Instrument Scientist at NASA Goddard Space Flight Center; and Michael Nolan, OSIRIS-REx science team chief at the University of Arizona.

OSIRIS-REx Spacecraft Finds Water On Asteroid

Dec 11, 2018 The asteroid Bennu may offer clues about Earth's habitability.
Hartley 2, a Jupiter-family comet, was captured up close in this 2010 image.

Comets Catch the Eye of UA Planetary Scientists

Dec 11, 2018 The paths of Jupiter-family comets are twisted into tighter orbits around the sun by the gravity of that planet.
UA study: how young women view men makes a difference in how they imagine their future.

How Women See Men's Roles Shapes Family Expectations, Study Suggests

Dec 10, 2018 The results suggest young women take cues from their expectations about men's changing family roles.
A Waymo self-driving vehicle in Chandler, Arizona.

Google's Robotic Spinoff Launches Ride-Hailing Service in Phoenix

Dec 6, 2018 The service, dubbed Waymo One, at first will only be available to a couple hundred riders.
Wolfe Bowart presents his latest one-man show, "Cloud Soup", making it's U.S. debut in December of 2018 at the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre in Tucson.

Making "Cloud Soup"

Dec 5, 2018 Also on Arizona Spotlight: How changing your address may impact your voting status; What is AVATAR, and how might it change the science of telling truth from fiction?; and Pima County Gardeners mark 35 years of helping Arizona grow.
The Aurora Borealis dances over the U.S. Midwest Jan. 25, 2012, from the vantage point of the International Space Station.

UA-Backed Solar Wind Explorer Sending Back Data

Dec 5, 2018 The Parker Solar Probe has started to prove theories about solar wind first proposed in the '50s, a researcher says.
Upchuck, bubby, wriggly, yaps, giggle, guffaw, puffball and jiggly rank among the funniest English words, according to a new report.

No Joke, Researchers Try to Decode What Makes Words Funny

Dec 4, 2018 Nothing says "humor" like semantic predictors from a computational language model.
The asteroid Bennu from the final approach of the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft.

Asteroid Receives Holiday Visitor: OSIRIS-REx Arrives at Bennu

Dec 3, 2018 About the size of an SUV, the spacecraft will shadow the asteroid for a year, before scooping up some gravel for return to Earth in 2023.
The Optical Science Building on the campus of the University of Arizona.

Founding Dean Gives $20M to Add to UA Optical Sciences Faculty

Nov 30, 2018 The donation is meant help the college "remain the best in the world."
OSIRIS-REx completes a 26-month journey to the asteroid Bennu on Monday.

OSIRIS-REx is Arriving at Asteroid Bennu Monday

Nov 29, 2018 The UA-led mission will begin orbital operations after the spacecraft's initial journey of more than two years.
Portion of an image produced by software that performs DNA sequencing.

'Junk DNA' May Be Responsible for Certain Diseases, Scientists Say

Nov 26, 2018 It was previously thought that it did nothing at all

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