An Austin startup has taken advantage of the commercial value hidden in a common food waste.
SioTex is an Austin startup that manufactures an eco-friendly silica powder made from rice hulls. The hulls...
Burning fossil fuels does more than put carbon into the atmosphere: It also disperses excess nitrogen into forests. Plants need this nitrogen to grow, but too much of it can disrupt the balance between...
UT researchers are addressing gaps in mental health care for college-age adults by implementing new programs in community health centers across Texas.
The Texas Institute for Excellence in Mental Health...
Gerrymandering, or dividing an area into political units to give special advantages to one group, is often used to sway the outcome of elections, but mathematicians may be able to solve the problem.
According...
Alison Norman and Sarah Abraham, two computer science lecturers, are hoping to program ethics into the core of computer science at UT.
CS109, Ethical Foundations of Computer Science, is a one hour course...
In 2010, Deepwater Horizon, the largest oil spill in history, coated Gulf Coast birds, mammals and sea turtles in oil and, researchers have found, caused health problems in fish.
Researchers at...
The city of Austin is on the road to more self-driving cars.
City officials plan to increase Austin’s fleet of autonomous vehicles over the next 20 years to improve its transportation system....
The way we talk about food depends on where we live, according to a study by UT researchers.
Psychology postdoctoral student Kate Blackburn and psychology postdoctoral student Ryan Boyd have discovered...
Force sense technology describes the pressure-sensing capability of touchscreen displays, and you might have heard about it in regards to Apple’s relatively new Force Touch and 3D Touch technologies....
Writing about upsetting experiences can improve both mental and physical health, researchers have found.
Studies show that people who hold in major secrets are more likely to have health problems compared...
Although art and technology may seem like opposite ends of a spectrum, a class of students brought together the two disciplines to provide animatronic dinosaur suits for a play.
The independent study...
UT scientists aren’t loafing around: Chemically engineered yeast are rising to the occasion and producing chemicals for sustainable plastics.
By rewiring the metabolism of Yarrowia lipolytica,...
