Research
UT Inventors Honored For World-Changing Creations
By Tim Green
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
By Jordan Schraeder
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...
UT Scientists Discover Largest Black Holes In Universe
By Jordan Schraeder
It’s something straight out of a science-fiction movie: two monster black holes, weighing as much as 10 billion suns, that threaten to swallow everything within...
Students Explore History of Campus Activism
By Rose Cahalan
In a 1971 Cactus yearbook photo spread titled “A Diverse Campus Society,” students are pictured studying on the lawn and walking to class. Some have...
UT Scientists Uncover Water On Jupiter’s Moon Europa
By Jordan Schraeder
We may not be alone in the universe after all—and a pair of UT scientists found the evidence to prove it. Britney Schmidt, a postdoctoral fellow at UT’s Institute...
Scientists Call Ecuadorian Region Hemisphere’s Most Biodiverse
By Lynn Freehill
A part of Ecuador being pursued for oil exploration is actually the Western Hemisphere’s single most biodiverse region, a team of international scientists...
Reversing Aging
By Melissa Mixon
Technology developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin could significantly reduce the time and cost to finding a cure for Alzheimer’s disease...
Team Led by UT Scientist Finds New Solar System
By Tim Taliaferro
A team of researchers led by a UT scientist has discovered an unusual multi-planet system containing a super-Earth and two Neptune-sized planets. The team led by...
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This Texas Ex Is Singing His Cowboy Songs in Music City
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How a Former Marine Built UT’s National Championship Weightlifting Team
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Two Award-Winning Professors (and One Hollywood Celebrity) Make Science Cool
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The Way Back: Hoop Dreams
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Good Reads Q&A: This Children’s Book Brings Social-Emotional Learning to Life in Technicolor