Research
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Switching to a Power Stroke Enables a Tiny But Important Marine Crustacean to Survive
Olympic swimmers aren’t the only ones who change their strokes to escape competitors. To escape from the jaws and claws of predators in cold, viscous water, marine copepods switch from a wave-like swimming stroke to big power strokes, a behavior that has now been revealed thanks to 3-D high-speed digital holography.
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Texas Longhorn Genome Decoded
Texas Longhorn cattle have a hybrid global ancestry, dating back through Columbus’ voyages to the New World all the way to ancient aurochs. Watch a video of the migration.
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Predicting the Big One
Research by Thomas Jordan, Director of Southern California Earthquake Center
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The Chemistry of Water
Research by Lee-Ping Wang, postdoctoral researcher, Stanford University
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Amazon’s Online Workforce Not So Anonymous After All
Most people assume that Amazon.com’s massive online workforce is anonymous, but a study by researchers from UT Austin and five other universities has uncovered a security vulnerability.
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Researchers Create an Ultrathin Invisibility Cloak
Until now, the invisibility cloaks put forward by scientists have been bulky devices an obvious flaw for those interested in Harry Potter-style applications.
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Wells Fargo Announces Three-Year, $450,000 Grant to Support Clean Energy Entrepreneurship at McCombs School of Business
As part of its national environmental grant program, Wells Fargo today announced that it has provided a three-year grant totaling $450,000 to the McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin that will allow the Jon Brumley Texas Venture Labs (TVL) to further develop the Clean Energy track started last year with an initial…
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The Texas Longhorn Genome Decoded
Texas Longhorn cattle have a hybrid global ancestry, according to a study by UT Austin researchers published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
