This November, two candidates will go head-to-head in hopes of becoming the next president of the United States. While energy policy has not been at the forefront...
Six years have passed since the largest accidental oil spill in history invaded the Gulf of Mexico. From the day the BP oil rig Deepwater Horizon exploded, pumping...
In 2014, UT professor (and Alcalde Texas 10 awardee) Eric Tang found that Austin is the only fast-growing U.S. city with a shrinking African-American population....
There are no crocodiles near the North Pole today, but that wasn’t always the case. Fossil bones from crocodile-like reptiles called champsosaurs have been unearthed...
According to a 2015 United Nations report, there are now more than 55 million refugees globally. That means more people are fleeing their homes due to violence or...
One in three Americans owns a gun, according to a 2015 Columbia University study. Yet the gulf between gun-owners and non-gun-owners may be wider than ever before—as anyone...
“Please choose one of the following: male, female, unknown.” It’s a variation of a question everyone has come across at some point in their lives while filling...
Pertussis, or whooping cough, kills 200,000 children each year, but a UT researcher’s work holds new promise.
Pertussis, also known as whooping cough, is a highly...
by Rebecca Macmillan, PhD Candidate in English, University of Texas at Austin
Twenty-four percent of U.S. teens say they’re online “almost constantly.”...
