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In January 2020, we will be releasing a new miniseries called The Next 50 Years.

Why do so many first-year students struggle in college? Who is most likely to fail? And what can professors and staff do to help them...

After decades of research, an effective RSV vaccine now seems within reach

An artificial intelligence agent that can glance quickly at parts of a new environment and infer the full scene might be more effective on dangerous...

Alex Huth is trying to build an intelligent computer system that can predict the patterns of brain activity in a human listening to someone speaking.

We're celebrating the 150th anniversary of the periodic table. Join us as we tour the cosmos, from the microscopic to the telescopic, with four scientists studying...

Scientists often talk about the people who mentored them, and the students and postdocs they supervise, in ways that sound like a family.

Scientist Kip Thorne talks with his former graduate student Bill Press about what it's like to work on a major Hollywood film.

The first full week of October is like a science-lover's World Series: Each year, the spotlight falls on high-impact science, when day after day, a...

Last year, University of Texas at Austin alumnus Michael Young won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the molecular mechanism behind circadian rhythms.