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Center for Infectious Disease Named for Dr. John Ring LaMontagne
A research center at The University of Texas at Austin will be renamed for Dr. John Ring LaMontagne, a scientist who combated infectious diseases to...
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Scientists Discover How We Play Memories in Fast Forward
New research shows how we use a special brain wave frequency when we think about past or future events to play them in fast forward.
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Textiles and Apparel Students Win Prestigious National Awards
Avani Patel and Seihak Long have both won major awards for their innovative ideas.
![UT textiles and apparel faculty members Nancy Prideaux and Sara Stevens accompanied the scholarship winners to the YMA awards dinner in New York. Left to right: Nancy Prideaux, Debby Garcia, Avani Patel, Clare Moore, Tami Gumilar, Daeci Dinh, Sara Northcutt, and Sara Stevens.](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/winners-lg-2.jpg)
Pyramid Probe
How particle physics can help explore the insides of ancient Mayan pyramids without digging
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UT Austin Professors Named Fellows of the National Academy of Inventors
Jonathan Sessler of the Department of Chemistry and George Georgiou of the Department of Molecular Biosciences at The University of Texas at Austin have been...
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Some Prairie Vole Brains Are Better Wired for Sexual Fidelity
Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that natural selection drives some male prairie voles to be fully monogamous and others to...
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Fish Skin Provides Invisibility in Open Ocean
Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about how some fish seem to disappear from predators in the open waters of the ocean, a discovery that...
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Testing General Relativity
Scientists from UT Austin once traveled to the Sahara Desert to observe a rare eclipse and used computers to model ripples in space and time...
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The Race for Dark Energy
Karl Gebhardt explains the two leading ideas for what dark energy might be.
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Can General Relativity, at 100, Withstand Some Holes?
Answering some of the biggest questions in astrophysics—for example, about black holes and the origin of the universe—might require overhauling general relativity.
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