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A close-up of turquoise.

Searching for What Turquoise Tells Us About Ourselves

Feb 23, 2018 Researchers look into the significance of the stone for cultures, past and present.
Mathematics formulae and characters on a blackboard.

Oro Valley School Encourages Hands-On STEM Learning

Feb 22, 2018 Innovation Academy opened its doors last August.
A view of the Himalayas.

Study Traces Citrus Family Tree to Foot of the Himalayas

Feb 22, 2018 Untangling the chaotic backstory of one of Arizona's celebrated "Five Cs."
The west side of Old Main on the University of Arizona campus.

UA Invested $622M in Research in 2017

Feb 19, 2018 The number surpassed 2016 by $18 million.

Student Exchange Aimed at Counteracting Cyberbullying

Feb 15, 2018 Tucson high school will meet Japanese team to focus on spreading kindness online.
A supercomputer simulation of hot gas falling into the black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The bright circular feature near the center of this image is the photon ring, predicted by Einstein's general theory of relativity.  

UA Focused on Project to Get First Images of Black Holes

Feb 15, 2018 National Science Foundation grant will help coordinate and compute data from telescopes.
The plume from Falcon Heavy's second stage engine created an unusual show in the skies above the Southwest.

It's a Bird! It's an Angel! No, It's Falcon Heavy!

Feb 7, 2018 Mars-bound rocket gives Southwest a sky spectacle.
The full moon in total eclipse, Sept. 27, 2015. Photographed in Tucson, Arizona, by Steward Observatory astronomer Glenn Schneider.

Catch a Total Lunar Eclipse Early Wednesday Morning

Jan 30, 2018 Early in the morning, the eclipse will cover a super, blue moon.
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Scientists Sue EPA Over Who Can Serve On Advisory Boards

Jan 29, 2018 The lawsuit is in reaction to the banning of EPA-grant recipients from the boards.
The Tucson Desert Art Museum opened in 2013 and is located on the city's east side.

A Desert Museum for Art and History

Jan 26, 2018 Tucson has two different attractions with "desert museum" in their names.
University of Arizona tree-ring scientist Valerie Trouet taking a pencil-thin core from an old Bosnian pine growing on Mount Olympus in Greece.

Tree Rings Tell Story of Jet Stream

Jan 25, 2018 Changes to North Atlantic air flows alter European summer weather.
This map shows Earth’s average global temperature from 2013 to 2017, as compared to a baseline average from 1951 to 1980, according to an analysis by NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies. Yellows, oranges and reds show regions warmer than the baseline.

Global Temperatures in 2017 Rank in Top 3 on Record

Jan 19, 2018 The desert Southwest experienced its warmest readings ever.
Catalina Sky Survey's 60-inch telescope atop Mount Lemmon.

Catalina Sky Survey Sets Record for Finding Asteroids

Jan 17, 2018 University of Arizona program bags 990 space rocks in 2017.
The Arizona Capitol.

Arizona Legislature Adds Closed Captions to Webcasts on Demand

Jan 16, 2018 Enables access for 1.1 million hearing-impaired Arizonans.
A bee gathers pollen from a sunflower.

Honeybee Research Hints At How Microbes Spread Antibiotic Resistance

Jan 16, 2018 Gene transfer taking place in the guts of the insects could be worsening the crisis.
A cross-section of a thick sheet of underground ice is exposed in this enhanced-color view from the High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

HiRISE Camera Reveals Ice Buried in Mars Cliffs

Jan 15, 2018 The UA instrument's find could be a boon for future human exploration.

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