Research
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Texas Engineers Develop Potential Treatment for Whooping Cough
Texas Engineers are making progress on a potential Whooping Cough treatment for vulnerable infants.
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Nuclear Waste Storage Sites in Rock Salt May be More Vulnerable Than Previously Thought
Research from UT Austin shows that rock salt, used by Germany and the US as a subsurface container for radioactive waste, might not be as impermeable as thought or as capable of isolating nuclear waste from groundwater in the event that a capsule or storage vessel failed.
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How Do You Understand Infinity? Ask a Supercomputer
What do gene sequencing, biofuel production, and the origins of the universe have in common? They’re all powered by the TACC.
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Climate Can Grind Mountains Faster Than They Can Be Rebuilt
Researchers for the first time have discovered that erosion caused by glaciation during ice ages can, in the right circumstances, wear down mountains faster than plate tectonics can build them.
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Fish Skin Provides Invisibility in Open Ocean
Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about how some fish seem to disappear from predators in the ocean, a discovery that could lead to more effective methods of ocean camouflage.
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Inventor of the Year Revolutionized Manufacturing
Engineers Joseph Beaman and Jennifer Maynard were honored Nov. 18 as the 2015 Inventor of the Year and Emerging Inventor of the Year. From laser 3D printing to an antibody treatment for whooping cough, their industry-changing ideas were sparked by asking questions and chipping away at the solutions.
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New ‘Self-Healing’ Gel Makes Electronics More Flexible
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering have developed a first-of-its-kind self-healing gel that repairs and connects electronic circuits, creating opportunities to advance the development of flexible electronics, biosensors and batteries as energy storage devices.
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UT Austin Partners with Alda Center to Improve Health and Scientific Communication
UT Austin will partner with the Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science at the State University of New York at Stony Brook to help scientists and health practitioners better communicate scientific findings to patients and the public.
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Austinites “Cautiously Optimistic” About 10-1 Representation System
Austinites are “cautiously optimistic” about the future of the 10-1 system of geographic representation adopted by the City of Austin in 2014 to elect City Council members, according to a report conducted by the Annette Strauss Institute for Civic Life and Leadership Austin.
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Trump and Cruz Tied in University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll
Equal numbers of Republican primary voters in Texas chose U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and billionaire real estate mogul Donald Trump as their first choice to be the Republican presidential nominee in the latest University of Texas/Texas Tribune statewide poll.
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Giant Magellan Telescope, World’s Largest, Breaks Ground in Chilean Desert
The McDonald Observatory, along with an international group of universities and research institutions, celebrate groundbreaking for telescope that will address key questions in cosmology, astrophysics and more.
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Crowdfunded Mobile App Hopes to Answer Why Monarchs Are Out to Sea
How are UT researchers tracking monarch butterflies’ over-ocean migration pattern? There’s an app for that.
