Research
From Cheating Voles, Lessons on Evolution of Behavior
By Katie Matlack
On account of their sheer abundance, prairie voles, a species of small Midwestern rodent, are what conservationists call a “species of least concern;” in other...
Total Recall: UT Researchers Shed Light on Memory
By Danielle Lopez
Let’s say it’s the morning of your first day of college. You’ve memorized your schedule, mapped out your route, and taken off 20 minutes early. But when you...
Just What the Doctor Ordered
By Danielle Lopez
When it comes to exercise, UT geneticist Molly Bray doesn’t believe in the old adage that something is better than nothing. She argues that mentality can do more...
In the Loop
By Chris O'Connell
A crackerjack team of UT students is competing to change the way we travel. Imagine commuting from Los Angeles to San Francisco and back in one night after attending...
Meet the World’s Biggest Telescope
By Melissa Gaskill
The view from the remote, barren Andes Mountains in northern Chile stretches for miles, over waves of bare, dun-colored peaks rolling to each horizon. More importantly,...
UT Researchers: Running May Help Treat PTSD
By Lauren Ferguson
The physical benefits of exercise, particularly running, have long been established. But researchers have begun to expand the understanding of mental benefits...
Football and Brain Injury: “Something Needs to Change”
By Ashley Festa
Doctors diagnose more than 200 concussions in NFL players each year. That’s unacceptable, says Shyam Popat, BA ’15, especially considering the long-term consequences...
UT Scientists Open Can of Worms on Animal Magnetic Field Detection
By Lauren Ferguson
For centuries, people have wondered how animals navigate, and the source of many species’ keen sense of direction has long been unclear. But now UT researchers...
Restoring Order
By Jane Robbins Mize
A new disciplinary method is keeping kids in school with a solution that sounds startlingly simple: talking it out. Picture this: 10-year-old Ben trips his classmate....
Fungus, Thy Name is Bevo
By Patrick Wiseman
When Cockrell School of Engineering researchers uncovered a never-before-identified strain of fungi in their lab at the University of Texas, they made sure it would...