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)

Weirdest Mars Craters Spotted by HiRISE

  • Discovery News
  • May 8, 2013
The Martian surface is peppered with impact craters of all shapes, sizes and ages. The High-Resolution Imaging Science Experiment, or HiRISE, team has identified which craters it considers to be the strangest. The UA operates the HiRISE camera, which is on board the NASA Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter.

Solving the Mysteries of the Human Condition Using Genetic Tools

  • Scientific American
  • May 8, 2013
The UA Genetics Core is home to rows of rectangular machines that hum busily at all hours of the day and night. These machines, which produce hundreds of thousands of pieces of data in a single run, sequence DNA and RNA, the genetic code and the genetic messages that program the building blocks forming a plant, animal or human.

Arizona Middle-School Science Push Hits a Wall

  • The Arizona Republic
  • May 7, 2013
The UA College of Medicine-Phoenix and the Arizona Science Center have teamed up to explore developing a new science curriculum for underserved inner-city and rural seventh and eighth-graders. The program aims to introduce students to new biomedical sciences they may be unfamiliar with, such as bioengineering and biotechnology.

UA Geneticists Find Causes for Severe Childhood Epilepsies

  • UANews
  • May 6, 2013
Using a DNA sequencing technique capable of deciphering all human genes at the same time, UA researchers have discovered genetic mutations underlying seizure disorders in previously undiagnosed children. Efforts are under way to establish a genomics diagnostic center at the UA and extend the capabilities to other areas such as cardiology, immunology and gastroenterology.

New UA Center to Help Schools Prepare High-Tech Workforce

  • Inside Tucson Business
  • May 3, 2013
The UA's STEM Learning Center seeks to coordinate ongoing University efforts around STEM – science, technology, engineering and mathematics – education. The center also will help area K-12 schools and the University better prepare students for the workforce.

How Would an Extra Month of 100-Plus-Degree Days Feel?

  • Arizona Daily Star
  • May 2, 2013
A new UA-led study on climate change in the Southwest shows that our weather patterns are already shifting and we're seeing and feeling the impacts. Says the UA's Gregg Garfin: "If greenhouse-gas emissions continue on their current path, by mid-century Tucson will have a projected additional 34 days a year (an extra month) of 100-plus-degree days and 25 more 110-plus-degree days."

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