Analyzing marine sediment samples collected from the Gulf of Mexico, scientists are gathering information to make new connections about climate change.
Dr. Terrence Quinn, director of the University...
Our solar system is now tied for the most planets around a single star.
In December, astronomers discovered an eighth planet circling the star Kepler-90. Though Kepler-90 is a sun-like star, the newly-discovered...
Manifest destiny, the Berlin Wall, and the ridicule for belief in a round earth.
All of this, accepted in the spirit of the time. Zeitgeist.
The Campus Environmental Center, CEC, held its first campfire...
An Austin startup is bringing robotics to the Drag to make your morning coffee.
Briggo, a coffee shop inside of Moojo’s on Guadalupe, opened last month. However, the coffee shop is completely...
UT physics associate professor Xiaoqin Elaine Li is studying the interaction between light and matter in quantum materials, which could lead to advances in everyday technology as soon as the next decade.
The...
Last week, a team of electrical engineers at the University of Texas, in collaboration with scientists at Peking University, quietly developed the thinnest ever digital memory storage device. ...
Studies on relationships tend to focus on younger couples, but UT researchers want to compare them with older couples.
As people grow older, their priorities and motivations shift, which changes the...
There’s a new neurosurgeon in town.
New Dell Medical School chair of neurosurgery Dr. John Kuo has always been around medicine. When he grew up in Taiwan, his dad, a surgeon, ran a clinic on the...
The flu isn’t the only health scare that’s going around this season. Two recently discovered computer chip vulnerabilities — ominously nicknamed Meltdown and Spectre — pose gigantic...
Now that Austin is on the short list for the second Amazon headquarters, UT’s tech talent may make the city appealing to Amazon, according to Donald Fussell, computer science department chair.
If...
Before construction started on the Dell Medical School, inaugural Dean Clay Johnston halted progress and insisted on the addition of a green roof.
Green roofs are small plots of soil planted on urban...
Scientists are trying to imitate nature by applying electrical engineering principles to biological systems.
A multi-institutional team of researchers has developed a method of programming DNA molecules...
