The fellowship will fund research on materials with applications in energy, medicine and drug discovery.

The AI supply chain is full of mixed incentives, according to researcher David G. Widder. He’s not optimistic that the companies in charge of it will police themselves.

Ian Molineux - lifetime achievement award

Researchers are racing to culture a menagerie of exotic organisms and finding lots of surprises along the way.

Long-term research finds most children recovered from the effects of the pandemic, with lasting challenges concentrated among those already facing hardships.

The world’s biggest dark matter search saw a particle it cannot explain

University of Texas at Austin nutritional scientists found nearly half of foods for young children exceeded recommended sugar, sodium, fat or calories.

Understanding how molecular structure encodes biological function remains a grand challenge in drug discovery. Here, we present PubCheF-1, a deep learning model that predicts literature-derived biolog...

Using LARES-2, LAGEOS and GRACE satellites, researchers measured Earth’s frame-dragging with unprecedented precision, strongly confirming general relativity, constraining alternative gravity theories,...

Residents fear that the Trump administration’s plans to build a border wall will threaten the region’s spectacular starry skies.

Key to earlier eradications of the threat was a University of Texas discovery that’s still proving useful today.

The real history is much messier—and more inspiring.

Dozens of UT students have received prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation.

The world’s largest-known group of chimpanzees split into two factions that are now engaged in deadly combat

The Class of 2026 graduate works to boost heart health, with a legacy that will endure on the Forty Acres.

Celebrate Earth Day weekend by becoming a citizen scientist at UT's Brackenridge Field Lab. Registration Required.

Whether it’s a canary’s chirp or a treefrog’s croak, humans tend to prefer many of the same sounds that animals do themselves, a new study finds

Triple-majoring in math, chemistry and computational engineering, the senior won the prestigious Churchill Scholarship.

Music to the ears of amorous amphibians and other creatures sounds best to humans, too, a new study finds.

The finding suggests other chemo drugs, too, may be making cancer cells cause a surprising immune-system reaction.

The discovery could also lend itself to the development of future antibacterial therapies.

The college’s 2026 Visualizing Science competition finalists span a number of disciplines.

"We are really pushing the edges, and are seeing things that are more massive, spinning faster, and are more astrophysically interesting and unusual."

This weekend offers a chance to see a rare celestial event—Mercury, Venus, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune all aligned in the sky like beads on a string

From a talk-show themed night featuring science comedy to a campus-wide day for hands-on STEM exploration to special events spotlighting the latest scientific discoveries, the 2026 Texas Science Festi...

Research Corporation for Science Advancement, America's first foundation dedicated wholly to science, has named 24 early career scholars in chemistry, physics, and astronomy as recipients of its 2026 ...

On September 14, 2015 at 5:51 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time (09:51 UTC), the twin Laser Interferometer Gravitational-wave Observatory (LIGO) detectors, located in Livingston, Louisiana, and Hanford, Wash...

The preemptive declaration will establish a joint Texas New World Screwworm Response Team.

Michael Strahan visits Big Bend National Park in Texas for our “50 States in 50 Weeks” series, where the park and surrounding area were named an International Dark Sky Reserve.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), a peer reviewed journal of the National Academy of Sciences (NAS) - an authoritative source of high-impact, original research that broadly spans...