Research
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On Earth Day, UT’s EarthDate Celebrates One Year of Exploring the Planet’s Mysteries
UT’s EarthDate radio show has grown tremendously since debuting on Earth Day a year ago. The show explores the planet’s mysteries, from the origin of ancient life to how the planet is changing under our feet.
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Creating Star Stuff on Earth is the Aim of New $7 Million Project
With a new $7 million grant, astrophysicists will re-create the physical environment inside white dwarf stars, helping reduce uncertainties about the sizes and ages of these super-dense objects.
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Great Barrier Reef Corals Can Survive Global Warming for Another Century
They’re still under threat from global warming, but corals in the Great Barrier Reef have enough genetic variation to survive for at least another century, or more than 50 years longer than previous estimates have suggested.
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Newly Discovered Salty Subglacial Lakes Could Help Search for Life in Solar System
Researchers from the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG) have helped discover the first subglacial lakes ever found in the Canadian High Arctic.
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Blockchain Beyond Bitcoin
McCombs School of Business professor Cesare Fracassi explains how the technology created for virtual currency will change the way we do business.
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UT Hires Next Director of No. 1 Ranked Computational Institute
Karen E. Willcox, co-director of MIT’s Center for Computational Engineering, to lead UT’s Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.
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Water Purification Breakthrough Uses Sunlight and Hydrogels
The ability to create clean, safe drinking water using only natural levels of sunlight and inexpensive gel technology could be at hand, thanks to an innovation in water purification.
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UT Austin’s Applied Research Laboratories Hires Executive Director
UT Austin alumnus Karl Fisher has been chosen to lead Applied Research Laboratories, The University of Texas at Austin (ARL:UT), one of the largest research units within the University of Texas System.
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Breakthrough Taco Will Change Breakfast — and the World
Researchers and faculty members are calling the lab-grown taco a marvel of biotechnology.
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New ‘Nanotweezers’ Open Door to Innovations in Medicine, Mobile Tech
Nanotweezers could create opportunities for innovations in nanotechnology and individual health monitoring.
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Behind the Scenes of UT Austin’s Vast Insect Collection
Alex Wild is not only an entomologist, he is also a skilled photographer. He has merged his two passions to bring UT’s vast insect collection out of the vaults and into the public eye.
