In the journal Zootaxa, a UA research associate describes a new species of assassin bug, known as the labyrinth bug, that lives in caves and snipes spiders.
Environment and Sustainability News
Shirley Papuga and Jonathan Sprinkle have earned the prestigious awards, granted to scientists who demonstrate outstanding research, excellent education and have a particular skill at integrating both aspects.
This summer, UA students are working with Arizona Cooperative Extension on sustainability projects throughout the state, providing them valuable on-the-job experience.
The UA's Brian Mayer is conducting a long-term study to examine and mitigate the socioeconomic impacts of the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf Coast region.
UA plant scientists are growing gourmet mushrooms on coffee grounds, landscape waste, even pizza boxes – and reducing that waste to compost.
Domestic honey bees are great for large-scale agriculture for a couple of reasons, writes the UA's Matina Donaldson-Matasci. First, they live in huge colonies of tens of thousands of bees: One colony can visit 50,000 blossoms in a single day.
A new global assessment helps scientists explain why genetically modified crops have suppressed some pests for longer than a decade, while others adapted in a few years.
The UA's Melanie Culver says the cougar - now making a comeback - appears to have evolved about 300,000 years ago from a cheetah-like cat that now is extinct.
The UA's William Sprigg and others are working on ways to predict the storms and notes that the potential health problems go beyond respiratory ailments.
The NSF annually awards 2,000 Graduate Research Fellowships to students across the nation. This year, 35 of those awards were granted to students who either currently attend or have attended the UA as an undergraduate or graduate student.
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