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Biologist Edward LeBrun is weaponizing a natural pathogen to use as a biocontrol for tawny crazy ants from South America that have become prevalent in...

Steven Weinberg aimed to distill the rules of physics down to their simplest, most beautiful essence.

Steven Weinberg was best known for his Nobel-prize winning work that unified two fundamental forces of nature — electromagnetism and the weak force.

Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.

Today we’re doing something a little different. We’re bringing you an excerpt from another great podcast produced here at the University of Texas at Austin...

Liz Gershoff thinks that as a society, we should get away from the idea that violence is integral to teaching children.

According to a new review in the journal Science, when highly social animals — such as ants, mice and bats — get sick, their social interactions change...

When Risto Miikkulainen and Padmini Rajagopalan simulated hyenas forming mobs to steal prey from lions, they found something surprising.

An epidemiologist and two molecular bioscientists get to the bottom of your burning COVID-19 questions.

Astronomer Caroline Morley speculates on the possibility of finding life on other planets in the near future.