Hasina Shah, General Projects Reporter
• April 10, 2024
WHAT: The Problem
When Fariah Mahmood thinks back to 2020, the UT graduate remembers barely leaving her house in Williamson County. She recalls the frantic search for reliable face masks and seeing...
UT’s College of Natural Sciences recently announced the winner of its annual Visualizing Science contest, which celebrates images captured by participants.
This year, physics graduate student Maile...
Texas is in urgent need of accessible and affordable child care, according to a recent policy brief by UT researchers in the LBJ School of Public Affairs.
According to the brief, over half of...
Laura Rivera, General News Reporter
• April 3, 2024
Large language models, a form of artificial intelligence, struggle to perform functional linguistic competence, according to a March 19 study co-authored by an assistant professor of linguistics at...
Five cancer-related projects at UT Austin recently received a total of about $8.3 million collectively from the Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
The Institute, the second-largest...
UT researchers developed AI tools to accelerate the production of a medication that treats Alzheimer’s and dementia symptoms, according to a study published March 7.
Simon d’Oelsnitz, an author...
Emily DeMotte, General News Reporter
• March 25, 2024
UT biomedical researchers developed a new tool that could reduce costs for diagnosing infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
The new tool, called the Subak reporter, works by using clustered regularly...
UT researchers discovered that pig-butchering scammers have stolen significantly more money than previously predicted, tracking over $75 billion stolen through the cryptocurrency schemes, a Feb. 29 study...
A recent study conducted by UT marine scientists linked rising sea levels in the Gulf of Mexico to the loss of seagrass habitats in Texas.
The study was conducted by Kyle Capistrant-Fossa, a UT doctoral...
An engineering professor at UT is leading six researchers in ongoing research to bring advanced computer programming systems, like artificial intelligence and machine learning, to the future of power grids.
Javad...
A UT professor recently co-wrote a research paper explaining why we experience perceptual biases.
Perceptual biases occur when observations inform how someone makes decisions. Xuexin Wei, an assistant...
As humanity grappled with the unprecedented challenges of COVID-19, the foothill yellow-legged frog faced a pandemic of its own, one that endangered the species.
Since the 1990s, Batrachochytrium...
