Science

UA's Megdal Elected President of National Institute

Sharon B.

Why Do Desert Plants Look That Way?

Saguaro National Park in Arizona. (Photo credit: Hugh Mason, via Wikipedia)

What is a Ferocactus?

Q&A: The Human-Robot Connection

Television shows, movies and books have long detailed human-robot interactions, and some of the fantastical images in popular culture decades ago are finally coming to fruition.

UA First Year Project Symposium is Growing

Maryam Tanbal has studied happiness, how people define and achieve happiness and how happiness evolves in society.

Conference Spotlights Interdisciplinary Environmental Research

“The School of Earth and Environmental Sciences is the place to be for world-class, interdisciplinary research in this field. EarthWeek is vivid proof of that claim," said Karl W. Flessa, director of the UA school.

UA, ASU Co-Hosting Renewable Energy Conference

For the second consecutive year, more than 150 University of Arizona and Arizona State University graduate and faculty students will convene to share their cutting-edge energy research.

B2 Helping to Create Strong STEM Ties

I love a challenge as much as the next guy, but I’m not sure I would have wanted to stay away from modern conveniences, family, and friends to live inside the Biosphere 2 for two years.

WISE Training Young Women toward STEM Careers

UA Physician Honored by U.S. President

LASIK eye surgery inventor Dr. Gholam A. Peyman, a UA College of Medicine – Phoenix faculty member, has been honored by U.S. President Barack Obama as one of the nation's leading inventors.

More Than $1M to Study Ocean’s Hidden Movers and Shakers

You can’t see them, but the world’s oceans are teeming with them: viruses.

Anyone who’s ever taken a gulp of seawater while swimming has swallowed millions of them. Very different from your average flu bug, marine viruses are the invisible movers and shakers of the planet.

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