Research
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Gap in Financial Literacy Widens for Couples the Longer the Relationship Lasts, Study Suggests
As couples mature together, they often grow apart in their level of interest and skill in handling their finances, according to researchers at UT Austin and the University of Colorado-Boulder.
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Creating Truly Autonomous Systems is the Goal of New $7.5 Million Engineering Project
Thanks to a $7.5M DOD grant, Texas Engineers are developing AI for UAVs to learn “on the fly.”
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MEDIA ADVISORY: Nation’s Largest Student Fashion Show Will Spotlight Sustainable Clothing
The University of Texas Student Fashion Show, Dimension, will take place April 26, 2018.
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Watch Your Step: How Vision Leads Locomotion
Using new technologies to track how vision guides foot placement, UT Austin researchers come one step closer in determining what is going on in the brain while we walk.
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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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