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5 Questions About Dark Matter — the Universe’s Biggest Mystery

UT Austin theoretical astrophysicist Katherine Freese shares what we know (and don’t) about the invisible substance shaping the cosmos.

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Oden Institute for Computational Engineering & Sciences

Testing Treatments Before the Trials: Oden Researchers Build Virtual Clinical Trials for Breast Cancer

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College of Liberal Arts

The Last Conversation

Dagoberto Cortez’s research looks to to better understand how both doctors and patients confronted, or sometimes didn’t confront, the painful realities of disease and death.

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Spooky Science: Arctic Wolf Spiders’ Eating Habits Are Shifting Over Time

Integrative biology professor Amanda Koltz explores the ways that arctic wolf spiders’ diets are shifting over time in a recent paper.

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In Brief: Research Award Advances AI Project Exploring Human Movement as Language

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College of Liberal Arts

The Brain You Deserve

What science can tell us about aging well.

From left-right: Tan Bui-Thanh, Joshua Burby, David Hatch. Credit: Oden Institute

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In Brief: UT-Led Fusion Research Team Wins Google.org AI Award

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The Brain’s Tug-of-War Between Impulse and Self-Control

A new study could help scientists better understand why people with addiction and obsessive-compulsive disorder struggle to resist urges.

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Helping Others Linked to Slower Cognitive Decline Among People at Higher Genetic Risk for Alzheimer’s

Researchers found that even modest time spent helping others was associated with cognitive benefits.

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In Brief: National Deaf Center Awarded $24 Million in Federal Funding

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College of Liberal Arts

Moonshot Funding for Dementia

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College of Natural Sciences

Jia Leo Li Selected as a 2026 Moore Foundation Experimental Physics Investigator

Selected among only 21 scientists nationwide, Li will be exploring quantum phenomena in atomically thin materials.

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