Smart, strong, talented and popular, the young Charles Whitman seemed, outwardly, like a poster child for the “all-American boy” stereotype.
But as the sandy-haired boy grew up into a tall,...
From November 2014 to early 2015, residents of North Dallas and Irving, Texas were struck by a series of earthquakes that would later be named the “Irving Swarm.”
In order to better study...
I read somewhere that coffee causes cancer. The number of all-nighters I have pulled with coffee as my only companion now has me worried about my future health. Should I be concerned?
—...
The T-Rex is known for its large teeth, giant size and fierce roar, but new research suggests that the tyrant lizard king may also have made cries no more frightful than a pigeon’s coo.
According...
When bacteria join forces, it isn’t good news.
UT biologists recently discovered that two species of mouth bacteria often found together, Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans, also known as Aa,...
A new electronic nose identifies more than just bad breath.
UT Dallas researchers, Dr. Navneet Sharma and Qian Zhong, recently built an electronic nose that uses breath analysis to detect a wide array...
I’m so confused about sugar – fruit has sugar and so does candy. Should I include fruit in my diet or should I try to limit my sugar intake? Can you help?
—Sugar Mama
Sugar...
For the past two weeks, UT alumnus and Niantic CEO John Hanke has had millions of people hunting monsters around the world.
Niantic’s Pokemon Go, which is top-grossing on both the Apple...
While people watched fireworks on the Fourth of July, Bryce Strauss was concerned with something else in the sky: the space probe Juno.
Strauss, who graduated from UT in May 2015 with an aerospace engineering...
Radio-television-film senior Auston Anon was sitting on his couch watching a science fiction film when he joked to his friends that they should create a company that would change the way hospitals collect...
My roommate came home the other day and devoured all my leftover pizza. Unbeknownst to her, I brought it home a week ago! I was grossed out that she ate something so old, but she said that since it was...
UT researchers have created a new enzyme that allows for more accurate diagnoses of genetic conditions.
The team, led by Jared Ellefson, a postdoctoral fellow in UT Austin’s Center for Systems...
