May 11, 2023
AUSTIN, Texas — The National Science Foundation has awarded funding to The University of Texas at Austin to lead an alliance of industry partners, academic research institutions, and nonprofit organizations and national laboratories to lay the groundwork for a new regional innovation engine in the Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico to help bridge […]
Mar 21, 2023
AUSTIN, Texas — Researchers behind discoveries that led to vaccines for the virus that causes COVID-19 have identified a potential Achilles heel that exists in all coronaviruses. These findings, led by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin, could aid the development of improved treatments for COVID-19 and also protect against existing and emerging coronaviruses. […]
Apr 12, 2021
How a research group at the Bureau of Economic Geology uses lidar technology to help the state to plan and recover
Nov 04, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas — A new analysis of historical seismic data led by The University of Texas at Austin has found that earthquake activity in West Texas near the city of Pecos has increased dramatically since 2009. The study, published Nov. 4 in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Solid Earth, is important because it leverages old, […]
Jun 28, 2019
On the 50th anniversary of the Apollo 11 moon landing, we take stock of UT’s connections to the ‘epochal event’
Jun 10, 2019
By 2050, the population of Texas is expected to double from about 28 million today to 55 million. This would create an incredible strain on resources.
May 29, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas — The rose may be one of the most iconic symbols of the fragility of love in popular culture, but now the flower could hold more than just symbolic value. A new device for collecting and purifying water, developed at The University of Texas at Austin, was inspired by a rose and, while […]
Jan 14, 2019
AUSTIN, Texas — Biologists at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered three new species of groundwater salamander in Central Texas, including one living west of Austin that they say is critically endangered. They also determined that an already known salamander species near Georgetown is much more endangered than previously thought. Writing today in […]
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