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Features

5 Questions With Senior Krithik Vishwanath

Triple-majoring in math, chemistry and computational engineering, he won the prestigious Churchill Scholarship.

A young man in a polo-style shirt crosses his arms and smiles standing before a limestone building labeled computational engineering and sciences.

Research

A Secret Weapon from Salmonella Could Help Us Maintain Healthier Microbiomes

The discovery could also lend itself to the development of future antibacterial therapies.

An illustration of pink, rod-shaped bacteria connected by filaments

Research

Experimental Chemo Drug May Trick the Immune System Into Fighting Cancer

The finding suggests other chemo drugs, too, may be making cancer cells cause a surprising immune-system reaction.

A microscope image of round cells that resemble lemon slices, but stained purple.

Features

Rooted in Nature: A Bio-Inspired Strategy Using Bacteria to Enhance Plant Fitness

A biologist takes inspiration from fungus-growing ants in his research with microbes that grow on roots in soil.

Leafcutter ants on fungus

Features

Visualizing Science Contest Winners for 2026 Span Disciplines

Top-prize image highlights a vital player in the central nervous system.

Shapes and colors like swirls of paint occupy a star-shaped cell found in the brain and spinal cord

Features

A Night at the Telescope

The Harlan J. Smith Scholars program involves astronomy undergraduates in observing on a major telescope.

In a room lined with bookshelves, students work on their laptops as a professor, hands in pockets, guides their work.

UT News

Longhorns Bring Their Expertise to SXSW 2026

Peter Stone, Stella Offner and Ilya Finkelstein are among the UT faculty involved in panels at SXSW this year.

Hook 'Em, the longhorn mascot, holds up hook 'em hands in front of a sign that reads Antone's SXSW 2024 as people mill about behind him.

McDonald Observatory

A Sea of Light: HETDEX Astronomers Reveal Hidden Structures in the Young Universe

Hobby-Eberly Telescope Dark Energy Experiment researchers have made a record-setting 3D map of the early universe.

A computer-simulation shows pixels labeled with stars and an inset. The overall map is labeled 100 million light years. The inset showing swirling gases is labeled 10 M light eyars.

Texas AI

Robots at Your Service in the Open World

Joydeep Biswas of UT Computer Science and Good Systems focuses on the role of service robots in busy environments.

A blur of people and patients moving through a hospital hallway with effects that nod to technological influences

Research

A Step Towards Needed Treatments for Hantaviruses in New Molecular Map

An innovative imaging technique enabled dramatically higher resolution structures than previous efforts.

Two views of a mushroom-shaped protein complex with individual proteins colored in vibrant red, green, blue and yellow