On Friday, seniors from the Polymathic Scholars, Health Science Scholars and Dean’s Scholars honors programs shared their thesis work at the College of Natural Sciences Honors Thesis Symposium.
The...
Astronomers now have to wait at least another year for launch of the James Webb Space Telescope. NASA announced last month that the launch would be delayed yet again, this time from May 2019 to May 2020....
Virtual reality can teach lessons and serve as an immersive video game platform, but it can also have another purpose: raising awareness about social justice issues, such as human trafficking.
The...
Conventional wisdom says you are what you eat, but for lemurs, it’s who they hang out with that influences the composition of their gut microbiomes, UT researchers have found.
The gut microbiome...
Gerrymandering, or dividing an area into political units to give special advantages to one group, is often used to sway the outcome of elections, but mathematicians may be able to solve the problem.
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A new competition is encouraging undergraduates to share images of their research in order to practice communicating that research to the public.
The Images of Research Competition is accepting submissions...
Six months after the Great American Solar Eclipse, the Texas skies will once again host an unusual astronomical event. On Jan. 31, a lunar eclipse will combine a blue moon, a blood moon and a supermoon,...
