News Highlights
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
Top Prize Image for Visualizing Science Shows a Logistic Map’s Chaotic Portion
A mathematics undergraduate took first place alongside other winners of the college’s 2025 contest.
Improved Brain Decoder Holds Promise for Communication in People With Aphasia
Restoring some language for aphasia sufferers, like Bruce Willis and a million other Americans, could involve AI.
Some Bacteria Evolve Like Clockwork With the Seasons
The longest natural metagenome time series ever collected reveals a startling evolutionary pattern on repeat.
In This Lab, Students Dig Into Antibiotic-Resistance Research
Meet the team behind a newly transformed experiential-learning biology course, reaching hundreds of UT students.
UT Austin Math and Computing Named Among Best in Global Ranking of Academic Subjects
UT Austin ranked fifth in mathematics and eighth in computer science and engineering worldwide in a new report.
Turbocharging Protein Engineering with AI
Biotech advances from UT’s new Deep Proteins group are changing the game with help from artificial intelligence.
New AI Institute Led by UT Researchers Will Accelerate Cosmic Discovery
Stella Offner and Arya Farahi are among the leads of a new multi-institution institute focused on AI and astronomy.
Early Galaxies Weren’t Too Big for Their Britches After All
It got called the crisis in cosmology. But now astronomers can explain some surprising recent discoveries.
AI Opens Door to Safe, Effective New Antibiotics to Combat Resistant Bacteria
Protein large language models identify ways to make antibiotics better at targeting dangerous bacteria, without being toxic to humans.
Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory
Materials with high magnetoelectric coupling could be useful in novel devices such as magnetic computer memories, chemical sensors and quantum computers.
