Julianne Hodges

An Austin startup is bringing robotics to the Drag to make your morning coffee.

While the rest of the United States prepared to view a total solar eclipse with their own eyes in August, researchers at Predictive Science Inc. got a sneak peak of the phenonmenon with the help of UT's Stampede2 supercomputer.

Money does grow on trees — at least in the form of air filtration and keeping buildings cool. Using a new interactive website, curious Longhorns can now see exactly how much UT’s trees are worth.

Trees removed from the Dell Medical School construction site are getting a second life as wooden furniture in the medical school buildings.

A group of UT students are reaching for Mars by designing their own manned mission to the red planet.

When Joy Youwakim was growing up, she grew tired of being told to eat everything on her plate because people elsewhere were starving.

NASA deputy administrator Dava Newman outlined the agency’s plan to put humans on Mars in a seminar hosted by the Department of Aerospace Engineering on Wednesday.  

Health and wellness technology is everywhere — fitbit apps, patient portals and nutrition trackers —­ but a new study by UT researchers shows that this technology might not be helping the people who need it the most: those who have a hard time understanding health information.   

UT researchers are hunting for elusive sterile neutrinos.

UT Southwestern researchers are unlocking the secrets of breast cancer through an unusual source: mitochondrial DNA.   

Glowing, going, gone: Fireflies have reappeared this fall, but will disappear again sometime in late October

UT alumnus David Reitze began his presentation by telling a story that started 1.3 billion years ago.

Although they look like regular plastic, those sandwich containers and parfait cups from DHFS aren’t recyclable — they’re compostable. 

As Juno takes its first snapshots of Jupiter, UT astronomers hope it will give new insights about planetary formation.

Bad news for students who suffer through boring classes: New research has confirmed that students who are interested in course material are better able to engage in class.

On Monday morning, Mercury will slowly march across the face of the sun. The Department of Astronomy and the Astronomy Students Association will help interested viewers see this relatively rare event on the roof of RLM from 9:30 a.m. until 1:30 p.m.

What starts with millennials could change the world’s climate. Although energy and environmental issues are still mainly partisan among older Americans, younger voters are overall more concerned about climate change, according to a UT survey.

A closer look at the individual proteins that repair living cells could provide clues for defeating cancer, according to UT research scientist Ilya Finkelstein.

Until about 60 million years ago, penguins soared above the ocean. When they lost the ability to fly, their brains took a while to catch up.

UT nursing graduate student Janet Morrison has spent hundreds of hours helping multiple sclerosis patients improve their quality of life. 

Most people wouldn’t make a connection between theatrical design and airplanes. For Andrew Carson, however, combining the two fields offered a solution to a tiresome problem.