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Amid the call for drastic water-use reductions in the Southwest, Arizona agriculturists, scientists and water stakeholders will gather to explore future sustainability at the Water Resources Research Center annual conference.

In many cases of epilepsy – which disrupts electrical activity in the brain and often results in seizures – the underlying cause is unknown. UArizona researchers may have found an explanation for some forms of epilepsy.

As the Colorado River carved the Grand Canyon, it flushed away ancient groundwater. The discovery was made using a new method that determines the age of water based on how much of the radioactive element krypton-81 is present.

A concept developed by UArizona aerospace experts and a NASA planetary scientist takes inspiration from albatross flight to learn more about the Red Planet's atmosphere and geology.

With a startup called CarbeniumTec, researchers in the College of Science and the College of Medicine – Tucson aim to bring to market new technology that reimagines how electricity is stored.

The better someone knows a topic, the more difficult their writing about that subject can be to understand. UArizona researchers have developed the Writing Clarity Calculator to help scholars determine how clear their writing is.

The new Arizona Native Scholars Grant program, the first of its kind in the state, will cover tuition and fees for full-time, in-state undergraduate students from Arizona's 22 federally recognized tribes.

Combining advanced climate model simulations with marine sediment analyses, a new study reveals what may have triggered massive ice sheets to form in Scandinavia, ringing in the last glacial period some 100,000 years ago.

In addition to observing Juneteenth as a paid holiday for the first time in 2023, the university is developing a yearlong campaign to tell the story of Juneteenth and Black people in the Southwest.

Desert dwellers know it well: the smell of rain and the feeling of joy that comes with it. The familiar fragrance, which is the result of oils and chemicals released by desert plants, may offer stress-reducing health benefits, University of Arizona research suggests.