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A UA-led study is the first to use shipwrecks as a proxy for hurricane activity. Learning more about how hurricanes correlated with climate for the past 500 years may lead to better regional predictions of hurricanes.
The battle is significant because the government is out to establish a legal precedent, according to law professor Derek Bambauer and information professor Yotam Shmargad.
UA planetary scientist Isamu Matsuyama has helped unravel dramatic events in the early history of Mars. Everything changed when massive volcanic eruptions initiated changes that eventually caused the entire planet to tip over.
Studies from the UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research contradict previous research that suggested when the eastern Mediterranean was dry, the western Mediterranean was wet — and vice versa.
The annual Tucson Festival of Books, to be held March 12 and 13 on campus with the UA as a major sponsor, has generated more than $1.2 million in donations toward efforts to improve literacy in southern Arizona.
In what was among a journal's 10 most downloaded papers in 2015, a multi-university research team based at the UA has found that nano-engineered materials widely used in semiconductor manufacturing pose low environmental risk.
Researchers have invented a new type of sensor designed to work effectively in high-temperature environments, and it has implications for solar power, nuclear reactors and petroleum refining.
UA-led research finds that synchronization of new-leaf growth with old-leaf loss causes large seasonal increases in "greenness."
The saguaro, an iconic symbol of the Southwest, is receiving more attention than ever from UA researchers wanting to know about their evolution — and from admirers wanting to protect and preserve them.
A toxin-free method for extracting copper from raw ore and other procedures using molten salts represent an opportunity for a sizable impact in both mining and energy storage.