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Marine Science Institute
How Invasive Rats Rewire Coral Reef Food Webs Creating Winners and Losers
Simon Brandl and colleagues found that rats on islands alter the types and abundances of animals living on surrounding coral reefs.
Those Toddler Foods on Grocery Shelves? More than 80% Are Ultraprocessed
UT nutritional scientists found that nearly half of the foods exceeded recommended sugar, sodium, fat or calories.
Teens who Start the Day with Breakfast, Especially Foods with Protein, Eat Better Overall
Teens who ate breakfast took in more nutrients and consumed less daily fat and sugar than those who skipped it.
One Idea, Two Cosmic Mysteries: Linking Little Red Dots and Globular Clusters
In a preprint publication, John Chisholm and colleagues find that LRDs may be an early form of global cluster.
Publishing in a Leading Journal as Undergraduates
Three undergraduate researchers published with a team in Nature, shedding new light on a microbe and its host.
Inside UT’s Quantum Ecosystem: From Breakthroughs to Possibilities
The University of Texas at Austin is charging ahead with quantum innovations, built on a history of quantum science leadership.
McDonald Observatory
Nearby “Super Earth” May Be a Better Candidate for Life Than Previously Thought
The planet, known as GJ 3378b, orbits a small, cool star is 25 light-years from Earth and is in its star’s “habitable zone.”
Limited Connections: How Stress Affects Our Brain
A study by Alison Preston and colleagues focused on how old and new memories are integrated in the hippocampus.
McDonald Observatory
HETDEX Opens Massive Cosmic Dataset to Scientists, Novices, and AI
The largest survey ever of the early universe contains 600 million spectra, covering part of the sky equal to 2,000 full Moons.
Scientists Map Proteins From Ancient Organism and Discover New Links to Rare Diseases
New ‘treasure map’ of ancient life holds clues to modern human diseases.