Day one of UT Energy Week, Natural Resources Day, featured an open mic about President Donald Trump’s energy policies.
During this open mic, Michael Webber, UT Austin Energy Institute Deputy...
In a recent preclinical study, scientists engineered a human enzyme to degrade cysteine in the bloodstream, effectively starving cancer cells. Cysteine is an important amino acid, a protein building block...
By changing the makeup of the tech industry’s workforce, companies can create the same disruption that made Hulu and Netflix so successful, according to panelists from the Texas Conference for Women.
Emily...
From flooding to storm pollution to aging water infrastructure systems, Austin has a lot of water problems. UT officials hope a new center will help.
In a national call to action by the U.S. Environmental...
On Monday, a panel of artificial intelligence experts met to discuss questions on one theme: How will jobs change as artificial intelligence becomes more and more capable?
This specific industry...
When UT students apply for jobs, graduate programs or professional schools, recommendation letters can play an integral role. What professors and students may not realize, however, is that these letters...
In the hands of scientists, a poisonous shrub could play an integral role in certain chemotherapy treatments and possesses potential for future cancer therapies.
UT professors have sequenced the DNA...
Shameika Wilmington’s scientific curiosity was sparked in the 1990s when she first looked through a telescope she received as a Christmas gift. Over 20 years later, she continues to explore...
Opioid overdoses — mostly from prescription pain relievers and heroin — have quadrupled since 2000, and 2,601 people in Texas died from overdoses in 2014, according to the Centers for Disease...
On Saturday morning, panelists electrified the Santa Rita room in the Union with arguments for and against laws requiring parents to vaccinate their children.
Anna Dragsbaek, president and CEO of the...
On Saturday afternoon, a Texas Tribune Festival panel ignited a heated conversation about the politics of abortion and the state of women’s reproductive health clinics in Texas.
Panelists Heather...
Scientists may have just found Earth’s long-lost twin.
After years of data collection, astronomers recently discovered Proxima b, the closest planet to the Milky Way located in the habitable zone,...
Watch out, infections — the brain may have another biological warrior to protect and defend against invading microbes.
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital...
Is it a bird? Is it a plane? Not quite — it’s another superbug.
Doctors recently detected a new type of superbug in a patient during her visit to treat a urinary tract infection. While not...
After spending years looking down at a microscope, Suzy Moody, Institute of Life Sciences student at Swansea University, was surprised to see a bacterial colony in the form of an eye staring straight back...
Neil Shubin, professor of anatomy at the University of Chicago, said becoming a fish paleontologist has altered his perception of people.
“If you look at Albert Einstein, you see the pinnacle...
Students may be OK with the Eyes of Texas upon them but not the eyes of Uncle Sam.
The recent San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone breakthrough has stumped UT professors in its technical, ethical...
Designed to keep students comfortable in extreme Texas weather, UT air conditioning is one of the most water and energy efficient cooling systems in the world.
The Dell Medical School will be the first...
Students can order pizza, clothes and textbooks to their front door. Now, they can add doctor visits to that list.
Remedy Urgent Care is an Austin-based startup founded on the idea of mobile doctor...
The University of Texas research project HETDEX will shine a light on dark energy, the mysterious force that might account for the expansion of the universe.
HETDEX, which stands for the Hobby-Eberly...
On Feb. 27, girls took over UT campus to program robots, identify organs and manufacture lip gloss.
UT’s Women in Engineering Program hosted its annual Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day...
Meet Megha Davalath: UT computer science alumnus, DreamWorks character technical director and fervent panda enthusiast.
Davalath worked on the set of “Kung Fu Panda 3” where she specialized...
Step aside, naps and Netflix. Students can now use a cutting-edge technique called neurofeedback to help themselves relax after a long day of exams.
Neurofeedback is a therapeutic method that...
Army veterans wear this material in artificial retinas. Professional tennis players find it in their tennis rackets. And it may be the secret to quantum computers.
Graphene is the “material of superlatives,”...
Students might wonder what’s going on in their heads when they can’t stop watching Netflix, or how their minds relay the balance between bitter and sweet in their favorite beverage. Optogenetics...
