UT researchers, in collaboration with experts around the world, discovered asteroid dust within a crater in the Yucatán Peninsula that links the extinction of 75% of life on Earth, including the dinosaurs, to a 66 million-year-old asteroid.
Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin published a study Jan. 28 explaining how remdesivir, the only COVID-19 antiviral drug approved by the Food and Drug Administration, works to fight COVID-19 infection.
University scientists made a breakthrough in novel coronavirus research by creating a 3D atomic-scale map of the part of the virus that infects human cells, according to UT News.
Nanogel technology may help deliver drugs to cancer cells directly while minimizing patient side effects, according to research by University scientists.
There are eels in every major river basin in Texas, but most people do not know about them, said Dean Hendrickson, curator of ichthyology at the Biodiversity Center.