Nature versus nurture: A debate that may only be applicable to women when it comes to a love of affection. A new study found a "latent genetic factor" accounting for up to 48% variance in affection for women with null effects in men. Read more
Breathe easy, because the University of Arizona Health Sciences Asthma and Airway Disease Research Center and the Arizona Emergency Medicine Research Center are leading a study funded by the National Institutes of Health, which is looking for a solution to the alarming amount of Emergency Room visits by children suffering from asthma attacks. Read more
Scientists at the University of Arizona have discovered the brightest known object in the early universe. Xiaohui Fan, a regents’ professor of astronomy at UA, and his post-doctoral researcher, Jinyi Yang, discovered this object, brighter than 600 trillion of our suns, after Yang noticed an anomaly in raw data collected from a survey of the night sky. Read more
“As a pretty young kid who was moving around a lot, focusing on reading, writing and history didn’t seem worth it. I had to relearn it all in a new language every time, but math is the same everywhere. Math was the only thing worthwhile to learn,” said Lia Medeiros, a graduate astrophysics researcher at the UA, reflecting on her childhood. Read more
Man’s best friend may also be man’s best research subject, as a study by a University of Arizona researcher suggested that personality traits in dogs may be the result of genetic inheritance. Read more
For the 14th year, the University of Arizona’s College of Science will present a free lecture series to the public over the course of the next two months. This year, the theme is “Searching for Certainty,” and the lectures will be held Tuesdays at 7 p.m. at Centennial Hall. Read more
The Flandrau Science Center & Planetarium at the University of Arizona will rock you with a new laser light show set to the music of rock group Queen, accompanying the release of the new major motion picture, "Bohemian Rhapsody." Read more
The Senior Cohort of the Health and Human Values Honors College minor hosted their first poster presentation at the Slonaker House living room on Wednesday, Dec. 5. The Health and Human Values Honors College minor is designed to provide a unique and interdisciplinary perspective that challenges scientific and western thinking. Read more
OSIRIS-REx executed an arrival burn on Monday, Dec. 3, after two years of space travel. It took seven minutes for the signal to travel back to Earth to find out if the burn was executed correctly. Read more
Ever wonder how old trees can get? What if I told you that I know a tree that was over 2,000 years old and weighed more than 4,000 pounds? Where is this tree located and why is that important? Find out with me, Pascal Albright, in this UA Minute in History. Read more
The University of Arizona Flandrau Science Center and Planetarium will be participating in International Observe the Moon Night on Saturday, Oct. 20. Shipherd Reed, Flandrau’s associate director of communication, said the event is “a designated night where planetariums all over the world try to put together programming to observe and appreciate and celebrate the moon, our nearest celestial neighbor.” Read more
Where does life come from? How did it evolve? Does life exist beyond our planet? These most basic questions of existence seem, to some degree, almost unanswerable, but they are exactly the questions that Betul Kacar, a professor astronomy and of molecular and cellular biology, is tackling in her scientific research laboratory at the University of Arizona. Read more
In 1971, NASA’s Mariner 9 entered orbit around the planet Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to ever successfully orbit another planet. By the end of its mission in 1972, the orbiter mapped 85 percent of the planet’s surface, transmitting more than 7,000 monumental images that transformed the realm of science. Read more
