Research
UT Invests in Giant Telescope to Take Us Back in Time
By Daniel Oberhaus
The Giant Magellan Telescope’s primary mirror segment six at the University of Arizona Richard F. Caris Mirror Lab. About 4,500 miles south of the Forty...
KUT’s Art Markman on the Mandela Effect
By Art Markman
I grew up watching the original Star Wars trilogy. A central part of the drama of these films (spoiler alert!) comes from Darth Vader’s revelation at the end...
UT-Led CISTAR Aims to Turn Natural Gas into Transportation Fuels
By Ryan Duffy
Sitting in her office sandwiched between new state-of-the-art research labs at the Engineering Education and Research Center, chemical engineering professor Joan...
KUT Host Art Markman: Get Out of Your Opinion Bubble
By Art Markman
Art Markman, co-host of KUT’s Two Guys on Your Head and a professor of psychology and marketing at UT, says you should talk with more people who are not like...
UT is Working With Google to Map Air Pollution in Real Time
By Chris O'Connell
Scientists at UT, led by Cockrell School professor Josh Apte and in collaboration with Google, the Environmental Defense Fund, and Aclima, a company that builds...
The Great Dying: UT Study Says Climate Change Elevated Mass Extinctions
By Kat Sampson
Sixty-five million years ago, the earth faced one of the most infamous periods of mass extinction. Though the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event failed to completely...
Duck Dynasty
By Melissa Gaskill
New research tells us to forget everything we thought we knew about dinosaurs. If a time machine dropped modern day humans onto Antarctica’s Vega Island around...
Lucy in the Sky: UT Study Says Ancient Human Ancestors Climbed Trees
By Danielle Lopez
It’s 3.2 million years ago and you’re traveling through the forests of Ethiopia. There’s no familiar sign of civilization in sight, though the wet, warm weather...
Meet the Two Distinguished Professors Coming to UT on Gov. Abbott’s New Grant
By Alex Samuels
Ten distinguished researchers are coming to Texas universities as a result of Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s new Governor’s University Research Initiative (GURI)...
The Power of Stories in Helping Disadvantaged Students Stay in College
By Alex Samuels
David Yeager. Photo via Charlie Pearce / The Daily Texan. Research shows that 30 percent of college students drop out after their first year, and half never graduate....