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Study: Americans Are Getting Less Sleep, Especially Blacks And Hispanics

A researcher says disparities could exacerbate social and health inequalities.
Above Yosemite National Park in California, looking out the window of a Twin Otter aircraft carrying NASA's Airborne Snow Observatory on April 3, 2013.

UA Scientists Identifying Exactly Where Snowmass is Declining

Findings suggest the West has lost significant snowpack over last three decades.
UA study: how young women view men makes a difference in how they imagine their future.

How Women See Men's Roles Shapes Family Expectations, Study Suggests

The results suggest young women take cues from their expectations about men's changing family roles.
Wolfe Bowart presents his latest one-man show, "Cloud Soup", making it's U.S. debut in December of 2018 at the Scoundrel & Scamp Theatre in Tucson.

Making "Cloud Soup"

Also on Arizona Spotlight: How changing your address may impact your voting status; What is AVATAR, and how might it change the science of telling truth from fiction?; and Pima County Gardeners mark 35 years of helping Arizona grow.
The Aurora Borealis dances over the U.S. Midwest Jan. 25, 2012, from the vantage point of the International Space Station.

UA-Backed Solar Wind Explorer Sending Back Data

The Parker Solar Probe has started to prove theories about solar wind first proposed in the '50s, a researcher says.
Upchuck, bubby, wriggly, yaps, giggle, guffaw, puffball and jiggly rank among the funniest English words, according to a new report.

No Joke, Researchers Try to Decode What Makes Words Funny

Nothing says "humor" like semantic predictors from a computational language model.
The Optical Science Building on the campus of the University of Arizona.

Founding Dean Gives $20M to Add to UA Optical Sciences Faculty

The donation is meant help the college "remain the best in the world."
Portion of an image produced by software that performs DNA sequencing.

'Junk DNA' May Be Responsible for Certain Diseases, Scientists Say

It was previously thought that it did nothing at all
The cover of Rebekah Rolland's "Seed & Silo."

Spotlight Session: Rebekah Rolland

Also on Arizona Spotlight: The secret life of spiders, and Tucsonans share tips for coping with difficult emotions.
Studies show e-cigarette use continues to grow among minors.

Study Confirms Concerns About Addictive Qualities of Smoking Substitutes

UA researcher finds e-cigarette cartridges can lead to dangerous levels of nicotine intake.
Portion of a NASA topographic shaded relief map of the surface of Mars created using the [Mars Orbiter Laser Altimeter](https://attic.gsfc.nasa.gov/mola/images.html).

NASA Announces Mars 2020 Rover Landing Site

The 28-mile-wide Jezero crater, site of an ancient stream-fed lake, lies near Mars's equator.
Earth's North Polar region.

Climate Change Could Drive Vegetation Changes

Tucson-based scientist charting similar changes from Ice Age.
Yves Lussier, left, and Haiquan Li.

High Schoolers Co-Author Scientific Research Thanks to Internship

A UA professor says the students made significant contributions to research into bioinformatics.
Sherri Williamson prepares to tag a hummingbird at San Pedro House in Cochise County. September 22, 2018

Playing Tag with Hummingbirds

Also on Arizona Spotlight: Luis Alberto Urrea on "The House of Broken Angels"; flutist Gary Stroutsos on playing music in sacred places; and Nancy Stanley on founding the stand-up comedy "Estrogen Hour".
Experts say Alzheimer's is an increasingly urgent problem.

UA Center Receives Funding for Alzheimer's Research

$3.7 million grant to help researchers study problem growing in urgency.
A solar panel array on a rooftop.

UA Researchers Developing Plastic-Based Solar Cells

The group is working on on organic, lower-cost solar power collectors

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