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The free, monthly public lecture series was founded and is run completely by students in the Plant Biology and Ecology, Evolution and Behavior (EEB) graduate...

UT Austin alumnus David Reitze talks about an event that happened in September or more than a billion years ago, depending on how you look...

Scientists from UT Austin once traveled to the Sahara Desert to observe a rare eclipse and used computers to model ripples in space and time...

Answering some of the biggest questions in astrophysics—for example, about black holes and the origin of the universe—might require overhauling general relativity.

Amira, Amier, and Layla Haidar plan to go into healthcare after they graduate

Astronomer Steve Finkelstein studies galaxy evolution

As part of a continuing tradition, we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us images this past...

With summer movie season in full swing, cinema-goers are leaving theaters with one big question in mind: “Wait, could that really happen?”

Experts at UT Austin share what science says about how students can stay sharp during busy times.

In 1915, The University of Texas at Austin awarded its first Ph.D. ever to zoologist Carl Gottfried Hartman. Hartman would go on to become one...