Citizen scientists enthralled by photographs of unusual galaxies posted online triggered a University of Alabama professor to use NASA’s famed Hubble Space Telescope to further analyze the space oddities.
A Tuscaloosa-based surgeon’s theory related to chronic pain is likely headed for a clinical trial early next year, and it’s drawing support from a University of Alabama researcher who studies how viruses replicate.
A freshwater snail declared extinct in 2000 was recently rediscovered in the Cahaba River by a University of Alabama graduate student.
John Clark doesn’t seem like a violent man. Yet, a group once wondered aloud whether he was one of those “foreigners who kills people and puts them in boiling water and extracts their fat to cook with.”
Members of the psychology department at The University of Alabama are seeking participants for a research study on attitudes toward yoga among chronic-pain sufferers.
The UA department of chemistry is hosting a Research Experiences for Undergraduates program, directed by Drs. John Vincent and Stephen Woski.
The National Science Foundation selected three University of Alabama professors for CAREER Awards totaling more than $1.6 million for research projects related to medical imaging, earthquake seismology and solar energy.
Seema Kumar of Shreveport, La., and Elyse M. McLaughlin of Birmingham, recent graduates of The University of Alabama, have received Fulbright Scholarships to study abroad during the 2012-2013 school year.
Deafening noise during combustion can lead to jet engine failure. A University of Alabama engineering professor, working with the U.S. Navy, uses a sponge-like material to reduce engine noise at its source.
University of Alabama physicists developed and built the largest active component of a prototype particle physics detector now shedding light on some of the fundamental particles of matter.