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Is AI Coming for Our News?
Journalism professor Robert Quigley answers our burning questions about AI and journalism.
AI Trained on Evolution’s Playbook Develops Proteins that Spur Drug and Scientific Discovery
EvoRank offers a new and tangible example of how AI may help bring disruptive change to biomedical research and biotechnology more broadly.
Allan MacDonald Named Citation Laureate
The annual recognition highlights researchers with extraordinary citation records and societal impact.
Department of Computer Science
Keeping Up with AI’s Increasingly Complex Networking Demands
A new framework called Transcraft makes the process of designing and implementing new network stacks simpler and more adaptable.
New AI Institute Led by UT Researchers Will Accelerate Cosmic Discovery
Stella Offner and Arya Farahi are among the leads of a new multi-institution institute focused on AI and astronomy.
Natural Sciences Welcomes New Faculty Across the College
Familiar faces and newcomers alike are among the 13 newest tenured and tenure-track faculty members joining the college.
Transitioning to an Empty Nest? What to Know and How You Can Help Scientists Learn More
As children grow up and leave home to begin college or work, their parents face a transformation of their own.
McDonald Observatory
Early Dark Energy Could Resolve Cosmology’s Two Biggest Puzzles
Michael Boylan-Kolchin and others show “early dark energy” might help solve the Hubble Tension and explain why there are more early galaxies than expected.
Is it Time to Regulate AI?
Artificial intelligence is very loosely regulated in the U.S. What kinds of laws would help make AI safer and more useful for everyone?
Carbohydrate Polymers Could be a Sweet Solution for Water Purification
In Cassandra Callmann and her team’s proof-of-concept, the sticky materials removed heavy metals including cadmium and lead.
