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UT Research on Methane Hydrate Could Transform the Energy Landscape

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A team of scientists watch the sunset from the helidock. The middle of the Gulf of Mexico is a busier place than you might think. Its deep, blue waters are dotted...

 
 

The Great Dying: UT Study Says Climate Change Elevated Mass Extinctions

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Sixty-five million years ago, the earth faced one of the most infamous periods of mass extinction. Though the Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction event failed to completely...

 
 

Memory Matters

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In the first Harry Potter movie, Neville Longbottom tests out his “Remembrall,” a magical ball that turns red when the user forgets something. When this happens...

 
 

Hello From the Dark Side

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How one UT alumnus helped continue some of Einstein’s most ambitious work The morning David Reitze, PhD ’90, vindicated Albert Einstein’s last remaining prediction...

 
 

Art.Science.Gallery.

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Hanging on the wall of Hayley Gillespie’s Art.Science.Gallery. is the answer to the universe. In an 11-by-14 inch print, the Earth sits upon the back of a great...

 
 

From Cheating Voles, Lessons on Evolution of Behavior

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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...

 
 

Meet the World’s Biggest Telescope

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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,...

 
 

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The Inventor

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UT physicist John Goodenough changed our lives with his pioneering battery research—and he isn’t done yet. On a Monday morning in March, a thunderstorm is pelting...

 
 

UT Scientists Open Can of Worms on Animal Magnetic Field Detection

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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...

 
 

TXEXplainer: Methane Hydrate

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Can’t see this video? Click here. It’s an elusive, chimerical material locked beneath the Earth’s surface, often called “fire and ice”...

 
 
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