Robots Are Roaming the Forty Acres in a New Research Program
For more than a century, robots have played a starring role in our visions of the future. Whether these sci-fi automatons would turn out to be our companions...
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Mia Carter was on vacation in Colorado’s San Juan Mountains when she started to feel like she was dying. It was late in the summer of 2020 and for months,...
Longhorn Scientists Are on a Quest to Grow the Ultimate Texan Delicacy in a Laboratory
Texas is home to 13 million cattle that are raised on thousands of ranches to feed America’s insatiable appetite for burgers, steaks, and ribs. But no one...
UT Invests in Giant Telescope to Take Us Back in Time
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...
A Longhorn Is Reinventing Farming—With Robots
An aerial view of the Iron Ox facility in Lockhart, Texas. Brandon Alexander had been trying to make burritos fly—and he was getting tired. The year was 2015,...
Researchers at UT’s Dell Medical School Are Using Virtual Reality and Video Games to Help Teens With Epilepsy
Each year, around 4,000 Americans undergo surgery to treat epileptic seizures. The procedure typically involves excising a small portion of the patient’s...
Space Force Enlists UT Austin to Help with Cutting-edge Research
Outer space has always been a warfighting domain. In the late 1950s, the first satellites were boosted to orbit on modified ballistic missiles that were originally...
NASA’s Next Test Flight will Honor the Longhorn who Helped Save the Apollo 13 Astronauts
Arturo Campos, BS ’56, was fast asleep at his Houston home when he got a call from NASA that would thrust him into the history books. It was just before midnight...
UT Geoscientists are Leading an International Team That Wants to Predict Earthquakes
On August 14, 2021, a 7.2 magnitude earthquake struck off the coast of Haiti. The Caribbean nation deals with quakes regularly, but this event was the largest...
UT Researchers are Repurposing Cancer Diagnosis Technology to Battle Fish Fraud
Each year, Americans consume nearly 10 billion pounds of seafood, almost all of it imported. But what lands on a boat in the South China Sea is often very different...
