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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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 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...
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...
