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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.

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...

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...

The Race for Dark Energy
Karl Gebhardt explains the two leading ideas for what dark energy might be.

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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Mixing Ages in Head Start Stunts Academic Progress
Four-year-olds in the nation’s largest preschool program fare worse with 3-year-olds in their classrooms, according to new research led by Elizabeth Gershoff that shows a...

Researchers Win $2 Million Grant to Develop Atomically Thin Semiconductors
Xiaoqin Elaine Li's team could help enable bendable computer screens and wearable electronics
