Opioid overdoses — mostly from prescription pain relievers and heroin — have quadrupled since 2000, and 2,601 people in Texas died from overdoses in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease...
Energy surged through a crowd of around two hundred students, including aspiring roboticists and members of the UT Robots and Automaton Society, as they gathered for the Robotathon 2016 Kickoff Tuesday...
As self-driving cars advance to mainstream markets and phones diminish individual privacy, programmers are becoming the new moderators of ethics. Elaine Rich, a UT computer science senior lecturer, discussed...
New workshops at UT will better equip teachers to teach students programming skills.
The Raspberry Pi Foundation, a UK-based educational charity, recently opened four Picademies in the U.S., including...
The United Nations recently selected Karan Jerath, a petroleum engineering sophomore, as a U.N. Young Leader for Sustainable Development Goals, a title he will hold for the next two years.
The...
Glowing, going, gone.
Although they’re usually associated with summer, fireflies can still be found lighting up the sky this fall. However, they won’t stay around for long. According to...
UT recently granted $150,000 to San Antonio-based medical technology startup Cardiovate.
The company will use funding from the UT Horizon Fund, an investment fund aimed at supporting UT-related startups,...
Last month, I drove to the gas station in the middle of the night for a chocolate bar. I ate a whole bag of potato chips last week because I needed something salty. As I write this, I’m resisting...
Tomorrow, a working group started by the Office of Sustainability will unveil the University’s first Sustainability Master Plan at the seventh-annual Sustainability Symposium.
The Sustainability...
Human-created, or anthropogenic, noise is a serious problem for both humans and animals, according to Mike Ryan, UT professor of integrative biology. Ryan recently co-authored a study showing how bats...
A startup launched by two UT students is giving its customers inner peace through outer space.
The company, called Orbital Memorials, will launch customers’ loved one’s ashes into low-earth...
Fifty percent of all cancer cases are completely preventable, yet according to experts in the field, health care in Texas is not translating this number to real life.
A panel of cancer experts and policy...
