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Human Skull Evolved Along with Two-Legged Walking, Study Confirms
Researchers confirm that the evolution of bipedalism in fossil humans can be detected using a key feature of the skull.
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What is the Value of a Human Life?
History professor Daina Ramey Berry’s new book is the first to explore the economic value of enslaved people through every phase of their lives – including from before birth to after death.
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Recovery after “Great Dying” Was Slowed by More Extinctions
Researchers studying marine fossil beds have found that the world’s worst mass extinction was followed by two other extinction events, a conclusion that could explain why it took ecosystems millions of years to recover.
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MEDIA ADVISORY: UT Austin Researchers Celebrate 15th Anniversary of NASA’s GRACE Twin Satellite Mission
The Center for Space Research at The University of Texas at Austin is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment (GRACE).
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Music and The Brain
Q+A with Professor Bob Duke on how studying the brains of musicians can teach us more about how we learn.
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UT Austin Receives $5.6M for Long-term Study of Alaska’s Arctic Coast
Researchers will study changes on land and in the ocean that affect the fish and wildlife that native communities depend on.
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U.S. News Ranks More Than 40 Programs at UT Austin Among Nation’s Top 10
UT Austin has more than 40 graduate programs ranked among the top 10 in the nation and four programs ranked No. 1, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 edition of “Best Graduate Schools,” released this morning.
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Overuse of Antibiotics Brings Risks for Bees — and for Us
A new study suggests antibiotics could play a role in colony collapse disorder.
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Vanishing Act: Scientists Find Possible Clue to Disappearing Bees
A new study from UT Austin suggests that antibiotics could play a role in the mysterious disappearance of bees.
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A New Era for Physics? With Creation of New Form of Matter, a Time Crystal, It Just Might Be
The atoms in a weird new phase of matter, called a time crystal, move in a pattern that repeats in time rather than in space.
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Researchers Link Methane in Groundwater in Parker and Hood Counties to Natural Sources
Scientists from The University of Texas at Austin have found that high levels of methane in well water from two counties near Fort Worth are probably from shallow natural gas deposits.
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PTSD Risk Can Be Predicted by Hormone Levels Prior to Deployment, Study Says
New neuroscience research suggests some soldiers might have a hormonal predisposition to experience PTSD.
