UT Nutritional Sciences professor Michele Hockett Cooper takes us from the sun-drenched tables of Sicily to school gardens right here in Austin, exploring how hands-on food experiences shape the way ...

The UT Association of Lab Managers presents a seminar to learn about water quality and its application in research.

The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power ChatGPT. Alex Huth (left), Shailee Jain (center) and Jerry Tang (right) prepare to collect brain activity data in the ...

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 ...

A new study shows that nearly half of frog and toad species in Latin America may lose their habitat range by 2050. Trachycephalus mesophaeus is among the species identified in a new study as likely to ...

Hong Qiao, a plant researcher, explains the science behind produce ripening, and how anyone can prolong shelf life. In order to maximize shelf life, there are strategies for storing produce.

A growing list of dark star candidates could help explain why some early galaxies were so big, so early in the universe. This galaxy, JADES-GS-z14-0 (shown in the pullout), is one of the most distant ...

An era of precision gravitational astronomy has arrived, and UT physicists are helping lead the way. Researcher working on one of the mirrors of the Virgo gravitational wave detector. Photo credit: ...

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

Breathe easy. It appears our microbial ancestors used oxygen, too. In December 2025, Brett Baker led a research cruise to collect microbial genomes off the coast of Uruguay. In this photo, Tyler Smith ...

Music to the ears of amorous amphibians and other creatures sounds best to humans, too, a new study finds. Citizen scientists listened to pairs of mating sounds from 16 different species, including ...

U.S. News & World Report placed UT in the top 10 in the U.S. and top-tier worldwide in a variety of science subjects. The University of Texas at Austin ranks among the world’s best universities and in ...