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Planet Hugging a White Dwarf May Be a Survivor of Star’s Death Throes

A team using NASA’s Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and retired Spitzer Space Telescope has discovered what may be the first intact planet found closely...

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New Dashboards Launched to Track COVID-19 Across Texas Communities

Sites use hospitalization data and more to predict how the pandemic is progressing in 22 different areas across Texas.

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Features

Alumna Lisa Piccirillo Solves Famous 50-year-old Math Problem

During her graduate studies at The University of Texas at Austin, Lisa Piccirillo solved a problem that had bedeviled mathematicians for five decades.

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Research

Researchers Discover Key Mechanism Cells Use to Harness Energy

New study finds how cells use important nutrient.

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Matching CRISPR to the Job Improves the Safety, Efficiency of the Gene-Editing Tool

A new tool helps scientists choose the best available gene-editing option for a given job.

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Hunting for a Better Biofuel Is Scope of New UT Austin-Led Research

How to make humble switchgrass into a biofuel powerhouse.

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Announcements

New Initiative Aims to Reveal the Origins of Complex Life

There is currently a fundamental gap in the understanding of the origin of complex life, eukaryotes.

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Research

UT Austin Selected as Home of National AI Institute Focused on Machine Learning

The National Science Foundation has selected UT Austin to lead the NSF AI Institute for Foundations of Machine Learning.

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Podcast

Ask the COVID-19 Experts

An epidemiologist and two molecular bioscientists get to the bottom of your burning COVID-19 questions.

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Research

International Project to Provide Detailed View of New Complexities Linked to Synapses

UT Austin researchers will lead research that can help us understand more about how we think, sense, learn, act and remember.

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