University of Alabama in Huntsville

UAH scientists are part of first discovery of giant neutron star flare outside Milky Way

January 13, 2021 sarah Jonas Gamma Rays, Goddard Space Flight Center, NASA, National Science Foundation (NSF), UAH, UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, Universities Space Research Association (USRA), University of Alabama in Huntsville

The first-time discovery of a giant flare from a neutron star that’s outside Earth’s galactic neighborhood is the subject of a new research paper in the journal Nature that has four co-authors from The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System.

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UAH researchers developing glass fiber drinking water monitor with EPA grant

January 7, 2021 sarah Jonas Drinking Water Safety, UAH, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Water Quality, water quality monitoring

A novel sensor network using glass fibers to safeguard drinking water supplies is being developed under a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency grant in a cross-campus collaboration at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System.

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Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 C per decade

January 5, 2021 sarah Jonas Climate Change, Global temperature report, global warming, NASA, NOAA, Satellite Data, UAH, UAH Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Global Temperature Report: December 2020

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Are we alone in the universe? UAH’s Dr. Gary Zank doesn’t think so

December 14, 2020 sarah Jonas Atmosphere, Exoplanet, Extraterrestrial Life, goldilocks zone, Planet Formation, Solar Wind, UAH, UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Are we alone in the universe? Research by Dr. Gary Zank at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System, and collaborators from UAH and other institutions has helped to inform the search for planets that could harbor life.

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Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 °C (+0.25 °F) per decade

December 3, 2020 sarah Jonas Climate Change, Global temperature report, global warming, NASA, NOAA, Satellite Data, UAH, UAH Department of Psychology, UAH Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Global Temperature Report: November 2020

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Promising lab results in quest to find naturally occurring anti-COVID therapies

November 30, 2020 sarah Jonas Coronavirus, covid, COVID-19, Dr. Jerome Baudry, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, UAH, UAH Department of Biological Sciences, University of Alabama in Huntsville

So far, 35 of 125 naturally occurring compounds identified computationally at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) to have potential against COVID-19 have shown efficacy in ongoing first-batch testing at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center’s Regional Biocontainment Laboratory (UTHSC RBL) that’s the next step in the process to becoming a drug.

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UAH helps develop air quality monitoring application for Thailand

November 23, 2020 sarah Jonas Air Pollution, NASA, Thailand, UAH, UAH Earth System Science Center, United States Agency for International Development, University of Alabama in Huntsville, Usaid

Thailand will get help mitigating air pollution from a new satellite data application co-developed by The University of Alabama (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System.

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Global climate trend since Dec. 1 1978: +0.14 °C (+0.25 °F) per decade

November 5, 2020 sarah Jonas Climate Change, Global temperature report, global warming, NASA, NOAA, Satellite Data, UAH, UAH Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Global Temperature Report: October 2020

Research Results

New research solves Parker Solar Probe’s solar switchbacks surprise

October 27, 2020 sarah Jonas Big Data, Dr. Gary Zank, NASA, Parker Solar Probe, Solar plasma, Solar Wind, Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP), UAH, UAH Center for Space Plasma and Aeronomic Research, UAH Department of Space Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville

In newly published research, scientists have for the first time modeled the nature of solar switchbacks – the large and long-duration isolated velocity spikes in the solar wind that surprised researchers when data arrived from the Solar Wind Electrons Alphas and Protons (SWEAP) instruments aboard NASA’s Parker Solar Probe (PSP).

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Latent customer needs can be discovered and knowable, says UAH professor

October 22, 2020 sarah Jonas Entrepreneurship, Product Development, UAH, UAH College of Business, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Companies can discover customer needs that are unknown to customers themselves through learning from their own market experiences and observing the market experiences of collaborators and competitors, says a research paper by a professor at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

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New atomic layer deposition process invented by UAH researchers

October 21, 2020 sarah Jonas atomic layer deposition, Coatings, Invention, National Science Foundation (NSF), UAH, University of Alabama in Huntsville

A new way to deposit thin layers of atoms as a coating onto a substrate material at near room temperatures has been invented at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), a part of the University of Alabama System. Thin film deposition is used in microelectronics manufacturing.

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Rapid disease pathogen identification a step closer following successful UAH startup demonstration

October 19, 2020 sarah Jonas FDA, Food And Drug Administration, Genetics, UAH, University of Alabama in Huntsville

Soon it could only take an hour to find out what pathogen is making you ill, following the successful demonstration of the world’s first multi-pathogen identification using non-amplified RNA detection by GeneCapture, a company cofounded by researchers at The University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH).

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