This year, 201 cases of the Zika virus have been reported in Texas, and it has the potential to spread, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services.
On Saturday, a panel of public...
Stephen Russell, a UT sociology and human development and family sciences professor, is bringing together research, practice and policy to improve the lives of LGBT youth in K-12 schools.
Russell, whose...
UT students presented five projects Saturday at the Texas Tribune Festival’s Innovation Showcase to share their cutting-edge research with peers and bystanders.
Dreamer Robot
The Dreamer...
On Saturday morning, panelists electrified the Santa Rita room in the Union with arguments for and against laws requiring parents to vaccinate their children.
Anna Dragsbaek, president and CEO of the...
On Saturday afternoon, a Texas Tribune Festival panel ignited a heated conversation about the politics of abortion and the state of women’s reproductive health clinics in Texas.
Panelists Heather...
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but scientists today don’t place the same emphasis on figures and colors that they do on text.
Chad Greene, a graduate research assistant at the UT Institute...
A team of American chemists, including a UT professor, recently discovered that differences in brain protein structures can contribute to the development of Alzheimer’s disease.
Alzheimer’s...
UT alumnus David Reitze, director of the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory, began his presentation by telling a story that started 1.3 billion years ago with the collision of two black...
It’s like Pokemon Go, but with real plants and animals.
iNaturalist and eBird are apps that use map software and GPS coordinates similarly to Pokemon Go. They allow users to log observations,...
When I go to the grocery store, I feel overwhelmed with the wide variety of health foods. I feel like every item carries some kind of health benefit. Some of these food items can’t be what...
Registration for HackTX, a 24-hour hackathon hosted by UT student organization Freetail Hackers, successfully reopened at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday after an initial failure on Friday. The hackathon, an event where...
While bees pollinate the plants that provide much of the world’s food and make the honey that tea drinkers know and love, their current situation is not very sweet.
The mystery behind high death...
