In less than three weeks, a total solar eclipse will cross the country. Here are some quick facts for the curious observer.
What causes an eclipse?
The sun is 400 times larger than the moon, but...
A recent study from the McCombs School of Business found that keeping smartphones within reach can reduce available cognitive capacity, or the amount of information the brain can retain at a particular...
This year UT geological sciences Ph.D. student Rachel Bernard challenged her peers to describe their research using only 1,000 of the most common words in the English language.
Bernard said she hopes...
Tune in this weekend to watch some UT soccer players compete against other college teams. The twist: they’re robots.
UT computer science professor Peter Stone and neuroscience professor...
A new fire detector developed by a UT undergraduate will notice flames before things get heated.
Isaac Laseter, physics and astronomy freshman, is building a new type of fire detector that relies on...
Homework sucks, but it doesn’t have to.
This is the philosophy behind a tablet app called Desk, developed by six UT undergraduates to change the way STEM students do their homework. Business honors...
Facebook CTO Mike Schroepfer has big plans for the future.
Schroepfer spoke Thursday at the AT&T Conference Center about three of the biggest tech breakthroughs possible in the next decade...
Two UT electrical engineering seniors are making it easy for anyone to be a rock star.
Tabish Chasmawala and Tarun Gattu recently created Airdrums, a device that uses motion sensors to simulate...
Private browsing may not be so private after all.
Hovav Shacham, associate professor in computer science and engineering at the University of California San Diego, gave a talk Tuesday at the Gates Dell...
A new club on campus aims to help students jump-start their own startups.
Texas Convergent, which started this semester, will teach students about startups and technology while also helping them...
On Saturday, approximately 300 students attended the fourth annual MADcon, an app development conference hosted by UT’s Mobile App Development society, or MAD.
“It is by far one of...
UT astronomy professor J. Craig Wheeler recently discovered more information about the history of red supergiant Betelgeuse, the ninth-brightest star in the night sky and the shoulder of the constellation...
Wind and natural gas are the lowest-cost technologies for generating electricity across the majority of the United States, according to research recently published by UT’s Energy Institute.
The...
Through a genetic study of sleep defects in mice, researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center recently discovered two genes that could help unlock the mysteries of sleep.
The study produced two pedigrees,...
Humans are not the only ones who can unconsciously discriminate against minorities or other groups—computer programs can also contain unintentional biases.
A computer program that predicts...
Every day is like Christmas for paleontologists at the Jackson School of Geosciences’ Texas Vertebrate Paleontology Collections.
Matthew Brown, Director of Museum Operations at the fossil...
One future application of artificial intelligence may involve predicting which web content most people will find interesting.
On Wednesday, Tad Hogg, a research fellow at the Institute for Molecular...
Computation is often considered a man-made phenomenon, but according to David Soloveichik, it doesn’t have to be. Soloveichik, a UT computer and electrical engineering assistant professor, applies...
On Monday, UT computer science Ph.D. student Tyler Hunt gave a presentation at the Gates Dell Complex on a prototype of a security program he helped design and implement called Ryoan.
The goal of the...
Entrepreneurs are digging up new business models from an unusual place: other companies’ trash.
The [Re]Verse Pitch competition, which began Oct. 11, matches entrepreneurs with businesses...
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...
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...
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...
Supercomputers can perform thousands of trillions of complex operations per second, but maintaining them is half the battle.
Last Wednesday, Tim Osborne, UT alumnus and systems analyst and geophysical...
