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 STEM Learning Center Set to Launch

  • UANews
  • April 8, 2013
The UA STEM Learning Center will provide the structural organization necessary to unify those engaged in STEM learning and workforce development in Southern Arizona. The center is set to launch April 12 during an event at the UA Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium.

UA Identifies Solar Sites with Greatest Potential

  • UANews
  • April 5, 2013
With an abundance of sunshine and wide open spaces, Arizona could be the nation's solar energy capital. But not every sun-soaked patch of land is right for a solar farm. If it's too sloped, sandy or remote, investors are not interested. The UA is producing geospatial maps that pinpoint rural sites with the greatest potential.

Parachute on Mars Flaps in the Wind

  • NASA
  • April 3, 2013
Photos from the UA-operated HiRISE camera aboard the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter show the parachute that helped the Curiosity rover land on Mars last summer shifting its shape over time. Combined into an animated series of images, the snapshots reveal a parachute blowing in the wind that sweeps across the Martian surface.

UA, Intel Join Forces to Deliver Online Engineering Degree Program

  • UANews
  • April 3, 2013
The UA College of Engineering and Intel's Fab/Sort Manufacturing College of Engineering - the company's corporate university - are working together to give Intel employees a distance-learning opportunity to earn UA Bachelor of Science degrees in chemical engineering and materials science and engineering.

BIO5-TGen Collaboration Targets Alzheimer’s Disease

  • Arizona Business Magazine
  • April 3, 2013
BIO5 Oro Valley and the Translational Genomics Research Institute, or TGen, are collaborating to develop new therapies for the treatment of Alzheimer's and other neurodegenerative diseases. Statistics from the National Institutes of Health indicate that 5.1 million older Americans - or one in eight - suffer from Alzheimer's, the sixth-leading cause of death in the United States.

Tech Launch Arizona Releases 'Roadmap' for Commercializing Research

  • UANews
  • April 2, 2013
Tech Launch Arizona, a technology commercialization center at the UA, celebrated its grand opening and new strategic plan during an event on April 1. UA President Ann Weaver Hart said Tech Launch Arizona, which focuses on moving UA knowledge and inventions to market, will play an important role in the University's future.

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