Three faculty members from the College of Natural Sciences have received Faculty Early Career Development Program (CAREER) Awards from the National Science Foundation. The award supports early-career ...

A kick-off social for second-year students to connect with classmates, explore program tables and grab some snacks and swag. This come-and-go gathering is a great opportunity to reconnect with ...

In the latest evidence that meaningful social connections bolster health, a team from The University of Texas at Austin and ...

The University of Texas at Austin has been chosen to lead a new institute that harnesses artificial intelligence to explore some of the leading mysteries of the universe, including dark matter and the ...

A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of ...

Quantum sensing — using the laws of quantum mechanics to count individual atoms, hear the weakest sounds and see the faintest light — holds the potential to transform biomedical and health sciences by ...

Scientists have harnessed bacteria, biosensors and artificial intelligence and are one step closer to fermenting an Alzheimer's drug.

A novel imaging method using DNA-based fluorescent sensors is yielding new insights about the progression of Alzheimer’s disease. There is a growing body of evidence that iron in the brain may play a ...

The new model is called WIFI, which stands for dark matter production during Warm Inflation via Freeze-In.

Deaths from coal were highest in 1999, but by 2020 decreased by about 95%, as coal plants have installed scrubbers or shut down. From 1999–2020, approximately 460,000 deaths in the Medicare population ...

The worldwide decline in frog populations is due to a fast-spreading infection, but people also play a role, UT Austin's Anat Belasen and team found.

Seagrasses store a lot of carbon in their tissues, making them a potential counterweight to rising levels of atmospheric CO2.