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Visualizing Science 2017: Finding the Hidden Beauty in College Research

Five years ago the College of Natural Sciences began an annual tradition called Visualizing Science with the intent of finding the inherent beauty hidden within...

This image shows the turbulent gas structures in a three-dimensional, multi-physics supercomputer simulation during the formation of such massive clusters, with the red-to-violet rainbow spectrum representing gas at high-to-low densities.

Research

Cracking the Code: Why Flu Pandemics Come At the End of Flu Season

Graduate student Spencer Fox and his colleagues found strong evidence that the late timing of flu pandemics is caused by two opposing factors.

Hypothetical seasonal flu epidemic spread (not based on real or simulated data) is depicted here

Podcast

Eyewitness to a Cosmic Car Wreck

What is the sound of two neutron stars colliding over 1 billion light years away?

Illustration of large explosion in space

Research

UT Austin and Texas A&M Scientists Seek to Turn Plant Pests into Plant Doctors

Sap-sucking pests could deliver gene therapy to plants under attack from diseases, droughts or floods

Oleander aphid.

Research

How UT Scientists Contributed to Nobel-Winning Gravitational Wave Discovery

No scientific discovery happens in isolation. See how UT Austin scientists and alumni are changing the world.

Diagram showing how different scientists relate to each other

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University of Texas at Austin Alum Michael W. Young Awarded Nobel Prize

Michael W. Young, recipient of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, received his bachelor’s and doctoral degrees from UT Austin and made a...

Michael Young in his lab

Research

Why Poison Frogs Don’t Poison Themselves

The answer might provide clues for developing better drugs to fight pain and addiction

This frog was captured at a banana plantation in the Azuay province in southern Ecuador in August 2017.

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Scientist Battling Invincible Microbes Takes Fight to the Silver Screen

Learn about UT Austin's Bryan Davies and his research into how to combat antibiotic-resistant bacteria and develop new antimicrobials to fight infection.

Two men embrace

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Victimization of Transgender Youths Linked to Suicidal Thoughts, Substance Abuse

Researchers led by Stephen Russell of the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences have found transgender adolescents are at greater risk for substance abuse...

A young person in the shadows of a school hallway at the lockers