by Admin | Jun 29, 2020 | Improving Health, Looking Beyond, UArizona
Some bacteria are associated with gynecologic cancers. Others are associated with health. Can bacteria be harnessed to defend against disease? Unanswered questions swirl around the microbiome — habitats in our bodies that diverse species of bacteria call home....
by Admin | May 7, 2020 | Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
In November 2017, a team of scientists pointed NASA’s Spitzer Space Telescope toward a comet-like object known as ’Oumuamua—the first interstellar body ever found in our solar system—but the object proved too faint for the infrared telescope to detect. Though...
by Admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Innovations, Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
Scientists are creating ways to compile and interpret an abundance of high-resolution satellite images on a continental scale to better understand Antarctica, Arizona and the world. The same sophisticated satellite imaging techniques being developed to map and...
by Admin | Apr 24, 2020 | Keeping Us Safe, Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
Scientists have discovered nearly all “extinction-scale” Near-Earth Objects, or NEOs (asteroids larger than 1 kilometer in diameter) and determined they pose no risk of impact in the near future. But there are still thousands of smaller NEOs that pose a potential...
by Admin | Mar 31, 2020 | Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
As a child, whenever Jacob Hyden was away from the lights of his hometown of Phoenix, he would spend hours looking at the night sky. “I was always inquisitive about space and the stars,” he said. “I was always looking up.” So when he came to NAU, he naturally...
by Admin | Dec 17, 2019 | Innovations, Looking Beyond, NAU, Universities
What can the asteroid Bennu tell us about the universe and its origins? Ask NAU Assistant astronomy professor Cristina Thomas. Thomas is a team member of NASA’s OSIRIS REx mission, which landed on the asteroid late last year and is collecting samples of regolith, or...
