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Tethered by a long cable, the high altitude balloon carrying the GUSTO telescope is being launched from McMurdo Research Station in Antarctica.

Steward Observatory balloon mission breaks NASA record 22 miles above Antarctica

Feb. 24, 2024

Seeking clues about the life cycle of stars, the GUSTO balloon mission, led by university astronomer Chris Walker, breaks the record as NASA's longest-flying heavy-lift balloon mission.

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National leaders gather at UArizona to map the future of semiconductors

Feb. 23, 2024

Advances in semiconductor technology are indispensable to today's standard of living. Industry leaders met to strategize ways to shore up the domestic semiconductor industry.

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A man in a blue rain coat wearing a woven hat stands in the desert in front of a group of grade school children as he points behind him at the desert landscape.

Camp Cooper celebrates 60 years teaching Tucson's youth about the Sonoran Desert

Feb. 22, 2024

The Cooper Center for Environmental Learning, which the College of Education operates with the Tucson Unified School District, is celebrating the milestone with the center's first renovations since it opened.

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The science of leap day – how it works and why we do it

Feb. 21, 2024

Ahead of Feb. 29, UArizona Regents Professor of planetary sciences Renu Malhotra explains why we need leap year, why we skip it once a century and why we sometimes need to add leap seconds.
 

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How a team of students uses technology to preserve and share Black history

Feb. 21, 2024

The University of Arizona Center for Digital Humanities partners with clients such as the Tucson Center for Black Life to both preserve historical artifacts and make them widely available as digital exhibits.

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Rendering of the Giant Magellan Telescope's primary mirror, consisting of seven mirror segments arranged like petals of a flower.

Giant Magellan Telescope brings new partner into the fold

Feb. 20, 2024

Taiwan's leading astronomy institute joins Australia, Brazil, Chile, Israel, South Korea and the United States in building one of the world's largest and most powerful telescopes.

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'The future is fungal': Research finds fungi that live in healthy plants are sensitive to climate change

Feb. 20, 2024

The findings, more than a decade in the making, reveal a rich diversity of beneficial fungi living in boreal forest trees, with implications about the health of forests.

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Congressional Western Caucus visits UArizona San Xavier Underground Mining Laboratory

Feb. 15, 2024

Rep. Juan Ciscomani of Arizona hosted fellow caucus members and congressional staff to showcase the University of Arizona's excellence in the areas of mining and critical minerals.

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UArizona ranks 51st among top 100 world universities granted US utility patents in 2023

Feb. 15, 2024

Successful University of Arizona patents from last year include many for innovations in health, such as improving cancer diagnoses and providing new types of lenses for patients with cataracts.

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Trove of USS Arizona memorabilia donated to University Libraries

Feb. 14, 2024

Hundreds of items collected by a sailor who left the battleship before the attack on Pearl Harbor add fresh details about shipboard life and how Americans reacted to "a date which will live in infamy."

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