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World Water Day is March 22, but at the U of A – ranked No. 1 in the U.S. in water resources by ShanghaiRanking Global Ranking – water is at the center of rigorous research year-round.

A combination of cosmic processes shapes the formation of one of the most common types of planets outside of our solar system, a new study finds.

The research team, which included University of Arizona planetary scientists, used data from NASA's Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, or TESS, to study young sub-Neptunes — planets bigger than Earth but smaller than Neptune — that orbit close to their stars.

After being issued 96 U.S. patents in 2024, the U of A jumped 20 spots on the National Academy of Inventors' list of the Top 100 Worldwide Universities Granted Utility Patents.

Neuroscientists have found that aging alters the gene expressions that control birds' songs. The finding could lead to better treatments for disorders such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's.

NASA's newly launched SPHEREx mission will use software developed at the Arizona Cosmology Lab to analyze data and help astronomers understand what happened in the first trillionth of a second after the Big Bang.

The U of A has the world's top entomology program and is a leading university in nearly 200 different fields of study, according to EduRank's Best Universities in the World rankings.

Quantum computing is considered the next generation of information technology. Two U of A researchers have received grants to advance novel areas in quantum information.

The gift will fund a 100,000-square-foot Student Design and Innovation Center, which will include collaborative classrooms, an advising center, makerspaces and more.

A new study sheds light on how extreme weather events impact phenological processes, specifically the flight period of butterflies and moths and the flowering time of plants, with implications for food security in the wake of climate change.

The U of A's physical sciences programs are ranked 50th in the world and 11th among U.S. public colleges and universities in Times Higher Education's World University Rankings by Subject.