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Family Separations, Guns and Elections: How Do Texas Voters Really Feel?

In the latest edition of the UT/TT Poll, Texas voters weigh in on some of the nation’s most contentious issues — border detention centers, school shootings, NAFTA — and offer insight into the upcoming elections.
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New Nerve Gas Detector Built with Legos and a Smartphone

Researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a way to detect the presence, type and concentration of nerve agents in the field using Legos, a smartphone and a chemical sensor.
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Fish’s Use of Electricity Might Shed Light on Human Illnesses

Weakly electric fish, commonly called baby whales, use brief electrical pulses to sense the world around them and communicate. By studying these fish, scientists may unlock clues about conditions like epilepsy.
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DNA Barcodes That Reliably Work: A Game-Changer for Biomedical Research

A new method for correcting errors that creep into DNA barcodes, labels used in a wide range of biological experiments, yields far more accurate results and paves the way for more ambitious medical research in the future.
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T. Rex Couldn’t Stick Out Its Tongue, New Research Shows

Dinosaurs couldn’t stick out their tongues like lizards. Instead, their tongues were probably rooted to the bottoms of their mouths in a manner akin to alligators.
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Media Advisory: HOMEChem Project Tests Indoor Air Quality During Open House

Leading experts from 12 universities will come to The University of Texas at Austin’s J.J. Pickle Research Campus to participate in a first-of-its-kind indoor air quality and surface chemistry experiment.
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Antarctic Ice Shelves Compromised by Combined Effects of Ocean and Atmosphere Warming

Scientists have discovered the world’s ice shelves are being destabilized from above and below and documented for the first time how these forces work together to carve off enormous pieces of ice and increase sea level.
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UT Austin’s McCombs School of Business Part of $50M Blockchain Innovation Program Launched by Ripple

The McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin will participate in a new blockchain research and innovation program founded by the distributed-ledger currency exchange company Ripple.
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Life Recovered Rapidly at Impact Site of Dino-Killing Asteroid

New research led by UT Austin has found that an impact crater created by the asteroid that wiped out the dinosaurs was home to sea life less than a decade after impact.
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Solar Energy Storage Problem May be Solved in New Single-System Technology

The DOE has awarded $3 million to UT engineers to overcome the Achilles’ heel of the solar power story: efficient energy storage.
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Eric T. Meyer Appointed Dean of UT Austin’s School of Information

Eric T. Meyer’s appointment will begin Aug.1, and he will hold the Louis T. Yule Regents Professorship in Library and Information Science and the Mary R. Boyvey Chair for Excellence.
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Caffarelli Receives 2018 Shaw Prize in Mathematics

Professor Luis Caffarelli received one of the world’s biggest prizes for mathematics, the 2018 Shaw Prize in Mathematical Sciences, which includes $1.2 million.