From Marfa to Mauritania: The Rise of the McDonald Observatory
Four hundred and fifty miles west of The University of Texas at Austin, thirty-seven miles (as the car drives) north of Marfa, and almost 6,800 feet above sea level...
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Invisibility Cloaking: Not Just For Harry Potter Anymore [Watch]
It may sound like science fiction, but it’s not: UT researchers have successfully engineered a way to completely cloak an object, making it invisible. Assistant...
Teachers Think White Girls Can’t Do Math, UT Research Shows
Annie Oakley may have sung “Anything you can do, I can do better” to her sharpshooting male opponent in 1946′s Annie Get Your Gun, but even today,...
Texas Scientists Grow the Tree of Life
You may think the Tree of Life was settled a long time ago, but scientists continue to refine, and sometimes radically alter, our understanding of how species are...
UT Chemists Create Origami-Like Sensor To Detect Malaria, HIV
Chemists at UT this week reported huge news: a sensor inspired by the Chinese paper-folding art of origami might be able to test for diseases such as malaria and...
UT Researchers Send Experimental Satellite into Space
Very early on the morning of Monday, Feb. 13, the European Space Agency launched its brand-new rocket into space, and with it went a satellite supporting an experiment...
Professor Dads Need Work-Family Balance, OYTEX Winner Finds
Sick kids. Sleepless nights. Conflicts between work and day care. Although research suggests that most dual-income couples share parenting duties, many people still...
UT Researchers: Flashing Traffic Lights Increase Crashes
Green means go. Red, stop. Yellow, slow down. Figuring out the traffic light system isn’t rocket science, right? It’s harder than it looks, says Cockrell School...
UT Inventors Honored For World-Changing Creations
Engineering professors John Goodenough and Adam Heller have won significant awards in their long careers. But an award made more significant by coming from those...
UT’s McDonald Observatory Key in Discovery of ‘Goldilocks’ Planet
The news about the existence of a possibly habitable earth-like planet blew up yesterday, after being announced at a NASA conference in Moffett Field, Calif. The...
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