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Increased precision of radiocarbon dating and archival evidence reaffirms 23,000 years as the age of the famous footprints discovered in White Sands National Park and demonstrates humans withstood abrupt swings in the environment within individual lifetimes.

OSIRIS-APEX, the spacecraft that originally flew as OSIRIS-REx, is expected to reach the asteroid Apophis in late spring of 2029, but the team is already keeping the spacecraft busy.

A Jupiter-sized world just 7.5 light-years away is cloudy, chemically complex, and, it turns out, more like home than anyone expected.

U of A-led research found that Arizona's law was associated with a pronounced increase in naloxone prescribing for patients receiving high-dose opioids. Could the law be an example for other states' approach to the opioid epidemic?

Sept. 30 marked the formal end of NASA's OSIRIS-REx mission. This was the United States' first ambitious attempt to collect a sample of an asteroid and return it to Earth, and it was led by the University of Arizona.

The mission, dubbed PUFFINS, will use an ultraviolet space telescope to seek answers about dust between stars.

U of A researchers Jessica Rainbow and Leslie Farland land a $2.4 million grant to study pregnant nurses and their work safety.

New research shows that X and Y chromosomes drive risk of diseases, including cancer, independent of hormones. Understanding these mechanisms could drive sex-aware medicine.

Located within the Phoenix Bioscience Core, the Medical Innovations Building will support a wide variety of medical research activities and is expected to open October 2027.

After Alzheimer's, vascular dementia is the second-most common type of dementia. Following more than a decade of development in the lab, researchers are preparing to evaluate a novel peptide in humans.