News: Integrative Biology
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
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Holy Bat Memory! Frog-Eating Bats Remember Ringtones Years Later
Frog-eating bats trained to associate a phone ringtone with a tasty treat remembered what they learned for up to four years in the wild.
![A bat rests on a cloth](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/frog-eating-bat-guerra_2400x1440.jpg)
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Legacy of Colonialism Influences Science in the Caribbean
An international collaboration of researchers shows how the legacy of colonialism remains deeply entrenched within scientific practice across the Caribbean.
![Map of the Caribbean](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/caribbean-map1400.png)
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How Electric Fish Were Able to Evolve Electric Organs
How small genetic changes enabled electric fish to evolve electric organs.
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Living Laboratories: Field Stations Offer Opportunities for Real-World Science
A network of field stations helps scientists understand invasive species, climate change impacts and search for potential green fuels.
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Invading Hordes of Crazy Ants May Have Finally Met Their Kryptonite
UT Austin scientists have demonstrated how to use a naturally occurring fungus to crush local populations of invasive tawny crazy ants.
![Ants swarm on a larger, dead insect](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/cryptachaea-porteri2_mark-sanders1400.jpg)
Some Trees May Play an Outsized Role in the Fight on Global Warming
A new study shows that nitrogen-fixing trees could help forests remove more heat-trapping COS from the atmosphere than previously thought.
![Sunlight peeks through the trees](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/black-locust-trees-and-sun-2400x1600_0.jpg)
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Unraveling How One of the Most Important Cell Types Form
Stomata are critical to plant biology and scientists have found a key to how they get there.
![Microscopic images of plant stomata](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/stomata1.jpeg)
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COVID Forecasting Method Shown to Reliably Guide U.S. Cities Through Pandemic Threats
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...
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Frog Pandemic
Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.
![A green frog rests on a tree branch](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/phasma_2400x1350.jpg)