The first step of the scientific process is to observe one’s surroundings and ask questions. Last spring I went undercover as a journalist, escaping my life as an engineering nerd to do what journalists...
Recently discovered microbes named after Norse gods may explain how complex life evolved on Earth.
A paper published in Nature last Wednesday found that a group of microbes from the archaea domain share...
Members of the UT Electronic Game Developers Society, or EGaDS, do more than play video games — they create them too.
The organization, which has been around for less than a decade,...
UT researcher Brian Korgel plans to build something that’s only been seen in science fiction — technology that will allow the user to feel what others feel.
Korgel, a UT chemical engineer,...
Large-scale climate models sometimes depend on very small dust and sand particles.
A recent study involving research completed at UT’s Jackson School of Geosciences concluded that the more...
While people watched fireworks on the Fourth of July, Bryce Strauss was concerned with something else in the sky: the space probe Juno.
Strauss, who graduated from UT in May 2015 with an aerospace engineering...
Certain types of bacteria can assist in oil spill cleanups.
A team at UT’s Marine Science Institute recently sequenced the DNA of bacteria present during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill...
The history of Earth’s climate has been shaped by volcanoes.
In a recent study published in Science, UT geosciences researchers found that there was more volcanic activity during Earth’s...
Think globally and act locally.
According to integrative biology professor David Hillis, Austinites should use this mindset when approaching Earth’s conservation and protection.
This...
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...
While vaccines have been effective in lowering childhood mortality, disparities still remain between high-income countries and low-income countries.
On March 29, Penny Heaton, director of vaccine...
Researchers at the University of Texas at Arlington have found a one-step conversion process that transforms carbon dioxide and water into hydrocarbon fuels.
Though it is in its early stages,...
In the future, wearable cameras could diagnose autism.
During a talk on March 1 in the computer science department, Georgia Institute of Technology professor Jim Rehg discussed how combining wearable...
The secret to cancer’s cure may come from noncancerous cells.
Molecular biosciences assistant professor Lauren Ehrlich has made significant discoveries using an innovative method of cancer research....
UT scientists are breaking the ice with 9,000 years of glacial history.
Researchers at the UT Institute for Geophysics have begun modeling the Greenland ice sheet in order to learn more about...
The future of electronics depends on the capabilities of next generation batteries.
The materials of these batteries typically expand during charging, which eventually damages battery electrodes....
