NASA’s Newest Space Telescope Relies on UA Technology Assembled with UA technology and know-how, the Near Infrared Camera that will form the heart of the James Webb Space Telescope is ready to be shipped to NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center and soon will be integrated into the telescope structure. Also, thanks to a UA-led outreach program, the Girl Scouts have played a special role in science and astronomy education across America.
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.
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)

UA Testing Heat-Resistant Coatings for Air Force Vehicles

  • Products Finishing Magazine
  • June 8, 2011
The UA's Erica Corral and her colleagues are investigating high-temperature resistant ceramic coatings that will provide thermal protection for Air Force hypersonic flight vehicles. The tests require simulating extreme environments where temperatures on the aircraft can go as high as 2,800 degrees Celsius, or half the surface temperature of the sun.

Confluence Center Awards Interdisciplinary Grants

  • UANews
  • June 8, 2011
The UA's Confluence: Center for Creative Inquiry has awarded grants to six projects led by University faculty members. Some of the projects are designed to improve student engagement, expand multilingual research, improve knowledge about Mexico's history and delve into issues around animals' self-awareness.

UA Scientist, Kavli Laureate Meets With President Obama

  • UANews
  • June 7, 2011
Roger Angel, director of the UA Steward Observatory Mirror Lab and Regents' Professor of Astronomy and Optical Sciences, met with President Barack Obama this week at the White House. Angel joined fellow Kavli Laureates for the meeting.

UA Trying to Keep Arsenic From Drinking Water

  • KNXV-TV
  • June 7, 2011
Scientists at the UA are researching the effects of arsenic in water with groundbreaking results. One study looks at how arsenic might cause bladder cancer and heart disease, and another project aims to reduce the amount of arsenic in well water.

New Video Simulation Helps Control Cotton Pests

  • Western Farm Press
  • June 6, 2011
Gaming technology has moved beyond the entertainment realm into production agriculture, providing upland and Pima cotton growers with a new tool to better control lygus, the No. 1 pest in the U.S. cotton belt. The software was conceived and commissioned by the UA.

Industry Helps Students Reanimate Robotic Mine Vehicles

  • UANews
  • June 3, 2011
In just 10 weeks, UA engineering students took five crates of surplus hardware and two heavy-duty test vehicles, which didn't run, and mixed them with youthful enthusiasm, tenacity and many long hours to build a couple of robotic vehicles that recently drove themselves around the UA's test mine.

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