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Four U of A projects have secured funding through the U.S. Department of Energy's Genesis Mission to apply artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific discovery in support of energy, national security and other critical national priorities.

M. Maya Kaelberer, an assistant professor of physiology in the College of Medicine – Tucson, was recently recognized with a Pew Biomedical Scholar award, which supports outside-the-box research by early-career scientists.

A new study shows that rising temperatures are going to hit plants harder than most current models predict, which could have significant implications for everything from plant and animal biodiversity to future weather patterns.

U of A researchers revealed polarized light and a powerful magnetic environment in a gamma-ray burst afterglow, offering new clues about how the universe's most massive stars end their lives.

Associate professor Gerardo "Jerry" Lopez spoke about why cyclospora is so hard to trace, how people can protect themselves, and what most people get wrong about it.

Researchers demonstrate a potential new use for graphene nanoribbons that could improve semiconductor technologies for fusion energy and space systems.

A team of University of Arizona engineers led by Minkyu Kim will hide lifesaving drugs in synthetic cell-like carriers to reduce side effects.

A team of U of A astronomers helped an international research consortium discover the faintest and farthest quasars in the early universe.

U of A researchers have found a promising experimental drug that could shield nerve cells from the damage of Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, a devastating neurodegenerative disease.

U of A researchers found that a group of proteins involved in neuronal development was overrepresented in the umbilical cord blood of about one-third of babies born small for gestational age.