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Switchgrass Genes Offer Advantages as Climate Change Tool
This native grass can capture atmospheric carbon in its substantial root system.

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Texas Astronomers Discover Strangely Massive Black Hole in Milky Way Satellite Galaxy
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.

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Breakthrough in Fight on Tick-Borne CCHF Virus is Latest Use of New Strategy Against Diseases
Scientists are developing vaccines and other treatments for the tick-borne Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF)

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As We Develop, the Brain Connects Lessons Learned Differently
A new study of brain activity patterns in people doing a memory task finds that the way we make inferences changes dramatically as we age.

First-Gen Student Navigates Own Path, Helps Others Chart Theirs
Guillermo Lezama who studies physics at UT Austin talks about how he became interested in the subject and his experience being a first-generation college student.

New Gravitational Wave Catalog Reveals Black Holes of ‘All Shapes and Sizes’
In a paper published Nov. 7th on the preprint server ArXiv, the team has detected a further 35 gravitational wave events since the last catalog release in...

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How a Natural Disaster Can Bring Couples Closer
A new study has implications for how to help families in the aftermath of natural disasters.

New Model Reveals How Chromosomes Get Packed Up
The first theoretical model of condensin, a molecular machine involved in packing and unpacking chromosomes, accurately reproduces all known experiments with just two parameters.

Like Their Domestic Cousins, Native Bees are Hurt by Pesticides
Numerous studies have found negative impacts of agrochemicals, such as neonicotinoids, on both honey bees and native bees, and researchers like Felicity Muth and her...

Loss of Picky-Eating Fishes Threatens Coral Reef Food Webs
Delicate ecosystems become more precarious as specialized hunters disappear.
