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Chemists and physicists are making steady progress on developing new materials that may prove key for our future energy needs.

Stomata are critical to plant biology and scientists have found a key to how they get there.

Patterns of weight gain in pregnancy may offer clues to how children will grow.

Using cellphone mobility data and COVID-19 hospital admissions data, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have reliably forecast regional hospital demands for almost...

Mathematicians are working to bring quantum field theory (QFT) into mainstream mathematics.

A new sodium-based battery material is highly stable, capable of recharging as quickly as a lithium-ion battery and might deliver more energy than current battery...

New research dramatically expands the number of naturally occurring versions of CRISPR-associated transposons (CASTs), giving researchers a wealth of potential new tools for large-scale gene...

Inside the "biological foundry" at the Army Research Lab's ARL-South partnership on the campus of UT Austin

This native grass can capture atmospheric carbon in its substantial root system.

UT astronomers María José Bustamante, Eva Noyola, Karl Gebhardt and Greg Zeimann, with colleagues from Germany’s Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics, made the discovery.