Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 29, 2022 flipbook.
Some of the UT researchers involved in creating the structure-based vaccines used against COVID-19 have potentially created...
UT researchers found worsening mental health, declining grades and an increase in food insecurity among Texas college students during the COVID-19 pandemic, with students who are women, people of color...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• March 31, 2022
University researchers drilled for ancient corals off the South Pacific Ocean to find out how the climate pattern of El Niño might change as a result of climate change. Although they received inconclusive...
University researchers potentially improved a key component of the gene-editing tool CRISPR, ensuring more efficiency and safety during alteration.
CRISPR is a tool used to alter genes by editing...
Editor's Note: This article first appeared in the March 1, 2022 flipbook.
Regional planning professor Alex Karner received three grants totaling over $400,000 for projects investigating transportation...
The study, which was published Dec. 1, attempts to prove the punctuated equilibrium theory that life on earth consists of long periods of stability followed by short mass extinctions.
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• March 10, 2022
Stampede2, one of the supercomputers available to University researchers, received a funding extension Feb. 21 to continue supporting scientists with research. The funding will last until June 2023, but...
The researchers developed GT Sophy, the AI program, using a technique called deep reinforcement learning, which researchers have previously used to train AI to beat humans in games like chess, Go and Jeopardy.
The team wants to eventually turn the gel into films that could be applied to windows to reflect light when it is hot and to allow light in when it is cold.
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• February 17, 2022
UT researchers collaborated with a university in Switzerland to develop a brain-computer interface that allows people with disabilities to control robots that aid them with physical tasks through brain...
Katy Nelson, Senior News Reporter
• February 17, 2022
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect the correct timeline and spelling of InStok.org, Bryan Leach and Darshan Bhatta. The Texan regrets these errors.
Three UT students created the website...
Researchers found that tenecteplase, a newer generation clot-busting drug, works faster than alteplase, which is the standard medication used for treating strokes.
