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)

Honeybees and Monoculture: Nothing to Dance About

  • Scientific American
  • June 10, 2013
Domestic honey bees are great for large-scale agriculture for a couple of reasons, writes the UA's Matina Donaldson-Matasci. First, they live in huge colonies of tens of thousands of bees: One colony can visit 50,000 blossoms in a single day. Second, those colonies can easily be picked up and moved around to wherever they’re most needed.

Biotech Crops vs. Pests: Successes, Failures From the First Billion Acres

  • UANews
  • June 10, 2013
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.

Astronomers Gear Up to Discover Earth-Like Planets

  • UANews
  • June 6, 2013
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.

New Technology Converts Web Text to Sound

  • Arizona Daily Wildcat
  • June 6, 2013
With the help of several graduate students from the UA department of management information systems, Tucson-based AudioEye Communications has developed technology that converts text on a webpage into audio. The technology provides a way for users to navigate a site via sound.

35 Wildcats Earn NSF Graduate Research Fellowships

  • UANews
  • June 6, 2013
The NSF annually awards 2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships to students across the nation. This year, 35 of those awards were granted to students who either currently attend or have attended the UA as an undergraduate or graduate student. Said Andrew Carnie, interim dean of the UA Graduate College: "We are tremendously proud of these students."

Report: Higher Ed Must Lead Climate Change Adaptations

  • UANews
  • June 5, 2013
Higher education institutions play a key role and must be leaders in preparing society to adapt to the needs of a changing climate, according to a new report evaluating education, research, campus sustainability and public outreach. The UA is cited in the report for its "varied and extensive research in adaptation to climate change."

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