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The Refinery at UA Tech Park.

New University of Arizona building focuses on tech startups

Tech Launch Arizona helps new businesses get off the ground.
Image of black hole in the Milky Way galaxy.

Scientists marvel at new black hole image

The University of Arizona-led Event Horizon telescope project captured the object in the center of the Milky Way.
The first images from the James Webb Space Telescope are designed to calibrate the spacecraft's optics.

Get ready for spectacular star show from the James Webb Space Telescope

Project engineers are fine tuning the instrument's optics for targeted images.
Four tech companies will have access to the laboratory at Biosphere 2 for research.

Biosphere 2 starts a tech incubator

The laboratory welcomed four tech startups in a ribbon cutting ceremony.
University of Arizona students interact with an autonomous food delivery "robot" operated by Grubhub and supplied by the Russian conglomerate Yandex.

University of Arizona parks Russian robots due to conflict

Grubhub, UA will "secure a new robot courier delivery solution."

Intelligence gathering incorporates social media in Ukraine

A University of Arizona information professor notes almost anyone can track Russian military movements online.
A screenshot from the trailer for the movie Moonfall depicts a space shuttle crew at launch. The set, a former NASA shuttle training simulator, is now on display at the Pima Air and Space Museum.

Former shuttle cockpit simulator comes to Tucson

Astronauts trained on it, then it became a movie set.
Autonomous truck technology road-tested in Tucson

Union Pacific will use self-driving trucks to move freight between Tucson and Phoenix

It will be San Diego company TuSimple's first customer on that route.
Arianespace's Ariane 5 rocket is seen in this false color infrared exposure as it launches with NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope onboard, Saturday, Dec. 25, 2021, from the ELA-3 Launch Zone of Europe’s Spaceport at the Guiana Space Centre in Kourou, French Guiana.

James Webb Space Telescope reaches its target

The first pictures of deep space are expected this summer.

Adia Barnes on Teamwork and Motherhood.

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James Webb Space Telescope

University of Arizona backed telescope project off to a stellar start

The James Webb Space Telescope will aim its optics at distant galaxies.
A TuSimple self-driving truck.

Autonomous trucker TuSimple logs first no-human road test

The self-driving truck cruised through southern Arizona.
NASA launched the James Webb Telescope on 12/25/2021. The University of Arizona designed the Near-Infrared Camera that the telescope will use.

Space telescope launched on daring quest to behold 1st stars

The University of Arizona designed one of the instruments on board.
A keyboard on a desk.

Study shows more people are not afraid to have machines make their choices

A University of Arizona researcher's survey asked if they preferred algorithms to human-generated decision-making.

Surge of federal funds planned to expand broadband access across Arizona

Most of the money will go to Arizona's rural counties.
Jessica Wittner (L) and Christina Birch are part of NASA's newest astronaut trainee class.

New astronaut list includes trainees with UA ties

They could be in line for upcoming missions to the ISS and maybe the moon.

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