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Invasive ants are a big threat to certain plant species' survival because the ants are small.
Steward Observatory staff and Forest Service fire fighters saved telescopes from the Aspen Fire.
Near-real-time information on atmospheric moisture will aid wildfire-fighters, flash-flood and severe-storm forecasters.
Science and community interests guide federal land managers at Valles Caldera National Preserve, New Mexico, which is to be an economically self-sustaining enterprise.
Forests burning on mountains around Tucson are valuable for tree-ring science.
Professor Sarma Vrudhula and his students are developing some clever tools that will help engineers extend battery life in all sorts of portable electronic devices such as cell phones, laptop computers and PDAs.
Students majoring in non-technical fields are learning about the beauty of aerodynamics in a general education course. They also are discovering the fun of testing model planes in wind tunnels and exploring the math and physics of flight.
Tucson scientists and world-class telescope facilities will strengthen the "astro" in NASA's astrobiology program.
Undergraduate women in UA's branch of the Virtual Development Center (VDC) have been working on three community projects. The students also attended the 4th annual VDC conference in Palo Alto, Calif. in April.
The state museum harbors an amazing contraption that an early UA scientist used in his long but futile quest to predict sunspot cycles in tree rings.