On Friday, seniors from the Polymathic Scholars, Health Science Scholars and Dean’s Scholars honors programs shared their thesis work at the College of Natural Sciences Honors Thesis Symposium.
The...
Astronomers now have to wait at least another year for launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA announced last month that the launch would be delayed yet again, this time from May 2019 to May 2020....
Blockchain and bitcoin go together like peanut butter and jelly, but blockchain and healthcare are more like peanut butter and pickles. The technology has immense potential, but it should be approached...
A couple billion years ago, Venus may have looked a lot more similar to how Earth looks today.
According to Matthew Weller, an institutional postdoc at UT’s Institute for Geophysics, along with...
Although carbon nanotubes are tiny, they have the potential to fix big problems.
Carbon nanotubes are cylindrical carbon molecules with nanometer-sized diameters. A collaboration between UT-Austin,...
Sex offenders tend to use more “other-oriented” language in online chatrooms to focus attention on their child target rather than on themselves, a UT study finds.
The study, which was published...
A team of German and U.S. researchers, including two UT professors, discovered a way to freeze sand, visualizing the process of forming crystal structures with lasers.
Harry Swinney, UT physics professor...
This academic year, the Health Informatics and Health IT certification program, designed to prepare post-baccalaureate students for work in health informatics and health information technology, moved from...
The ability to use chosen or preferred names in a variety of contexts improves mental health of transgender youth, UT researchers have found.
Transgender people often have chosen names different from...
According to the World Health Organization, 2.1 billion people around the world lack access to safe drinking water in their homes. A new development at UT may have the ability to change that.
A...
Students who tuned into a recent showing of HQ Trivia, a mobile game show where viewers can participate in a trivia game using their smartphones, may have been surprised to find out that UT-Austin owns...
UT’s Rig Automation and Performance in Drilling consortium is taking on the Herculean task of making the U.S. the world’s largest oil producer.
The consortium is an industry affiliates...
