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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.
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UT Austin and NASA Expand High School STEM Initiative, Launch New Online Program

NASA has selected the Cockrell School of Engineering at UT Austin for a five-year, $1.3 million grant that will support the national expansion of a STEM program that gives high school students and teachers the opportunity to use NASA resources and work directly with engineers at UT Austin’s Center for Space Research.
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Researchers Win $2 Million Grant to Develop Atomically Thin Semiconductors

A research team led by Xiaoqin Elaine Li has been awarded a grant of $2 million to research and develop thin, flexible semiconductors that might eventually lead to bendable computer screens and wearable electronics.
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Chemistry in Mold Reveals Important Clue for Pharmaceuticals

In a discovery that holds promise for future drug development, scientists have detected for the first time how nature performs an impressive trick to produce key chemicals similar to those in drugs that fight malaria, bacterial infections and cancer.