News: Point of Discovery
Read the latest news from the College of Natural Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin
“AI for the Rest of Us” Brings Expert Conversations on Artificial Intelligence to UT Community
For the Year of AI, University experts and guests offer up key lessons about AI across disciplines.
Is Cosmology in Crisis?
A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology.
A Once-in-Many-Centuries Event
In honor of the impending total solar eclipse on April 8th, we present this special eclipse podcast.
Heartbeat of the Estuary
Philip Souza’s research is focused on the sounds that fish along the Texas Gulf Coast make to attract mates or defend territory.
Brain Activity Decoder Can Reveal Stories in People’s Minds
The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power ChatGPT.
Right Place, Right Time
Like the Hubble Space Telescope before it, the James Webb Space Telescope has the potential to change the course of astronomy.
Neutralizing Crazy Ants
Biologist Edward LeBrun is weaponizing a natural pathogen to use as a biocontrol for tawny crazy ants from South America that have become prevalent in...
A Physicist’s Search for Beauty
Steven Weinberg aimed to distill the rules of physics down to their simplest, most beautiful essence.
Remembering Steven Weinberg
Steven Weinberg was best known for his Nobel-prize winning work that unified two fundamental forces of nature — electromagnetism and the weak force.
Frog Pandemic
Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.
