News: Research

​Carlos Baiz, Caroline Morley, Andrew Potter and Urbain Weyemi are among the 128 scholars from across the country selected by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation to receive the 2021 Sloan...

Undergraduates at the UT Austin Inventors Program are exploring how mealworms, and the microbes in their guts, can naturally degrade household plastics.

A new model could help public health officials in Central Texas better manage what amounts to a much larger vaccination campaign than was carried out...

Learn about Jessica O'Connell's decision to join UT Austin's Department of Marine Science and what her research focuses on.

Having all people in the U.S. tested on a regular, rotating basis can likely slow the spread of the novel coronavirus and the loss of...

School vegetable gardens and classes about nutrition and gardening increased vegetable consumption among children.

For the first time, scientists identified a critical mechanism that remdesivir uses against SARS-CoV-2 and unearthed information that drug companies can use to develop new...

Biologists are one step closer to the goal of making a cheap, widely available plant a source for energy and fuel.

Transmission rates and community immunity can determine when and whether to scale back testing frequency

Older adults living alone during the pandemic saw distinct benefit from in-person visits when compared to electronic communications.