It’s time to confess — keeping secrets is bad for students’ mental health and immune systems, according to psychology professor Jamie Pennebaker.
Pennebaker researches expressive...
College students constantly find themselves too far away from an outlet. Their cell phones slowly fade away, with no chance of coming back until they get home.
However, with future textile innovations,...
Over two hundred million miles away from Earth, there is a planet shaped solely by wind.
Geosciences postdoctoral student Mackenzie Day recently discovered that the mounds on Mars’s surface...
A closer look at the individual proteins that repair living cells could provide clues for defeating cancer, according to UT research scientist Ilya Finkelstein.
The Finkelstein Lab used a single-molecule...
As a kid, my grandmother insisted that I guzzle milk and snack on cheese and yogurt all day so that I have strong bones once I get as old as her. Was she right?
—Dairy Queen
There is...
Simon Quiroz has the power to make a television screen come to life. As a post-production specialist for the radio-television-film department’s UT3D program, Quiroz said he works with students to...
UT researchers have biologically engineered a new algae that can kill mosquitoes during their larval stage.
Molecular biology professor and principal investigator David Herrin, UT alumnus and...
A student has started a petition to relocate macaque monkeys at the UT Animal Resource Center. If they are not relocated, scientists will euthanize these primates.
Just about a half-mile from...
Science journals commonly use p-values, a statistical index used in research data, to decide whether papers are worthy of publication. However, even scientists frequently misuse p-values, according to...
Ah, space. Beyond the confines of our little blue planet, it looms as a mysterious entity in people’s imaginations. Stories circulate about what might be out there: things that hide on the dark side...
Rain or shine, good water management is necessary to improve a city’s sustainability.
UT researchers have recently found that when cities store surface water in underground aquifers they...
For a successful romantic relationship, maintain other friendships.
In a recent study, Lisa Neff, associate professor of human development and family sciences, examined physiological responses to conflicts...
