Research
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T. Rex Couldn’t Stick Out Its Tongue, New Research Shows
Dinosaurs couldn’t stick out their tongues like lizards. Instead, their tongues were probably rooted to the bottoms of their mouths in a manner akin to alligators.
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Media Advisory: HOMEChem Project Tests Indoor Air Quality During Open House
Leading experts from 12 universities will come to The University of Texas at Austin’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus to participate in a first-of-its-kind indoor air quality and surface chemistry experiment.
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Antarctic Ice Shelves Compromised by Combined Effects of Ocean and Atmosphere Warming
Scientists have discovered the world’s ice shelves are being destabilized from above and below and documented for the first time how these forces work together to carve off enormous pieces of ice and increase sea level.
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UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business Part of $50M Blockchain Innovation Program Launched by Ripple
The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin will participate in a new blockchain research and innovation program founded by the distributed-ledger currency exchange company Ripple.
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Life Recovered Rapidly at Impact Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid
New research led by UT Austin has found that an impact crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was home to sea life less than a decade after impact.
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Solar Energy Storage Problem May be Solved in New Single-System Technology
The DOE has awarded $3 million to UT engineers to overcome the Achilles’ heel of the solar power story: efficient energy storage.
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Eric T. Meyer Appointed Dean of UT Austin’s School of Information
Eric T. Meyer’s appointment will begin Aug.1, and he will hold the Louis T. Yule Regents Professorship in Library and Information Science and the Mary R. Boyvey Chair for Excellence.
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Caffarelli Receives 2018 Shaw Prize in Mathematics
Professor Luis Caffarelli received one of the world’s biggest prizes for mathematics, the 2018 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, which includes $1.2 million.
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Rapid Evolution Fails to Save Butterflies from Extinction in Face of Human-Induced Change
New research confirms that wild species can adapt quickly to human-induced change, but that the adaptation can cause deadly “eco-evolutionary traps” when humans introduce new resources and then quickly take them away.
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Coal Plants Get New Life in the Sun
Cheaper renewable energy is reshaping how electricity is generated and consumed. But is there a way to still make use of all those old coal plants and mines?
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Student Entrepreneurs Will Pitch Ideas at “Shark Tank”-Style Longhorn Startup Demo Day
Longhorn Startup Demo Day, where student entrepreneurs pitch their startup business ideas to the community, is May 3.
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Park Rangers from Across the Country Look to the Bright Stars in Texas
Where do park rangers from across the country go to learn about one of our greatest natural resources – the night sky? They go to the McDonald Observatory in West Texas.
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Cockrell School of EngineeringTexas Engineer Michael Webber Wins McGraw Prize in Education
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Academic Medicine Raises the Bar for Pediatric Neuroscience Care in Austin
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