Researchers started growing pink oyster mushrooms and expanded to blue oyster, king oyster and lion's mane. They haven't ventured into shitake yet (pictured), but they plan to.
UA Grows Gourmet Mushrooms That Recycle Waste Mushrooms are the great decomposers of the Earth. What can these voracious fungi do with urban waste? That's what plant scientists at UA are studying. They're growing mushrooms on coffee grounds, landscape waste, even pizza boxes - and reducing that waste to compost. They're also producing delicious high-quality gourmet mushrooms that could be headed to market.
Galaxy NGC 6240, where the supernova was found, came about when two galaxies collided. (Photo: Adam Block/UA Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter)
Supernova Discovered at UA SkyCenter Adam Block, host and astrophotographer at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, unexpectedly discovered a supernova - a massive star ending its life in a giant explosion - in a photo obtained with the center's Schulman Telescope for a different purpose. He spotted the supernova in a photo he took of a famous galaxy that is 400 million light years away.
This image from the UA-operated HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows linear gullies extending almost 1.2 miles inside Russell Crater. Unlike gullies caused by water-lubricated flows on Earth and possibly on Mars, they don't have aprons of debris at the downhill end of the channel, just an empty pit – most likely left behind by dry-ice chunks. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA)
Marks on Martian Dunes May Reveal Tracks of Dry-Ice Sleds Chunks of frozen carbon dioxide most likely carved linear gullies into sand dunes on Mars, according to a new study combining images from the UA-operated HiRISE camera and experiments conducted on dunes here on Earth. The results add to a series of discoveries reminding us that Mars is less Earth-like than it may seem.
A pink bollworm caterpillar emerges after devouring the seeds within a cotton boll. This devastating pest quickly evolved resistance to genetically modified cotton in India, but not in the Southwestern United States where a coordinated resistance management program has been in place since the biotech crop was introduced in 1996. (Photo: Alex Yelich/The University of Arizona)
Biotech Crops vs. Pests: Successes, Failures From the First Billion Ac... Experts with the UA College of Agriculture and Life Sciences have published a landmark study analyzing why pest resistance to genetically modified crops evolved quickly in some cases, but not in other cases. The global assessment could help to gauge the risk of resistance for new biotech crops before they are commercialized.
Many stars are enshrouded in a dust cloud that may hide undiscovered planets with conditions suitable to life. The star Fomalhaut, depicted in this artist’s impression, was recently found to have a faint dust cloud in a region resembling the Main Asteroid Belt in our solar system that might harbor yet undetected planets. (Image: ESA, NASA and L. Calcada/ESO)
Astronomers Gear Up to Discover Earth-Like Planets Dust clouds around stars are thought to hide undiscovered planets with conditions suitable for life, but observations have been hampered by the fact that only the brightest such clouds can be detected with current technology. UA astronomers are developing a technique to detect faint dust clouds, many of which might hide Earth-like planets.
Researchers started growing pink oyster mushrooms and expanded to blue oyster, king oyster and lion's mane. They haven't ventured into shitake yet (pictured), but they plan to.
Galaxy NGC 6240, where the supernova was found, came about when two galaxies collided. (Photo: Adam Block/UA Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter)
This image from the UA-operated HiRISE camera on NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter shows linear gullies extending almost 1.2 miles inside Russell Crater. Unlike gullies caused by water-lubricated flows on Earth and possibly on Mars, they don't have aprons of debris at the downhill end of the channel, just an empty pit – most likely left behind by dry-ice chunks. (Photo: NASA/JPL-Caltech/UA)
A pink bollworm caterpillar emerges after devouring the seeds within a cotton boll. This devastating pest quickly evolved resistance to genetically modified cotton in India, but not in the Southwestern United States where a coordinated resistance management program has been in place since the biotech crop was introduced in 1996. (Photo: Alex Yelich/The University of Arizona)
Many stars are enshrouded in a dust cloud that may hide undiscovered planets with conditions suitable to life. The star Fomalhaut, depicted in this artist’s impression, was recently found to have a faint dust cloud in a region resembling the Main Asteroid Belt in our solar system that might harbor yet undetected planets. (Image: ESA, NASA and L. Calcada/ESO)

A Father's Search Finds Reason for Daughter's Epilepsy

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • June 17, 2013
The UA's Michael Hammer is an expert in population genomics. He directs the UA's Human Genomics Core, which traced the origins of a half-million people for National Geographic's Genographic project. His lab also found the source of his daughter's epilepsy.

$6M Grant Boosts Molecular Heart Research

  • UANews
  • June 17, 2013
Combining the resources and expertise of seven institutions in North America and Europe, a research program will offer new insights into the molecular workings of heart muscle cells and how genetic mutations affect their function. Henk Granzier, a UA professor of physiology, is one of two principal investigators leading the prestigious and highly competitive project.

Happy 90th Birthday, Steward Observatory

  • UANews
  • June 14, 2013
This year marks the 90th anniversary of the UA's Steward Observatory and the department of astronomy. "We have the best location of any educational institution in America. The University ought to make itself famous with a telescope." With those words, part of his long and persistent effort to bring a world-class observatory to the UA campus, pioneering astronomer Andrew Ellicott Douglass set forth his best argument.

Toxic Hazards Await Astronauts Who Explore Mars

  • NBC News
  • June 14, 2013
Challenges are ahead for explorers of Mars given the toxic nature of perchlorates that are pervasive on the Red Planet. Finding calcium perchlorate "was one of our most unexpected results," said the UA's Peter Smith, the Phoenix principal investigator. Microbes on Earth, Smith said, use perchlorate for an energy source.

UA Grows Gourmet Mushrooms That Recycle Waste

  • UANews
  • June 13, 2013
Mushrooms are the great decomposers of the Earth. What can these voracious fungi do with urban waste? That's what plant scientists at UA are studying. They're growing mushrooms on coffee grounds, landscape waste, even pizza boxes - and reducing that waste to compost. They're also producing delicious high-quality gourmet mushrooms that could be headed to market.

Supernova Discovered at UA SkyCenter

  • UANews
  • June 12, 2013
Adam Block, host and astrophotographer at the Mt. Lemmon SkyCenter, unexpectedly discovered a supernova - a massive star ending its life in a giant explosion - in a photo obtained with the center's Schulman Telescope for a different purpose. He spotted the supernova in a photo he took of a famous galaxy that is 400 million light years away.

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