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Neuroscience professor wins NSF CAREER award
Laura Colgin studies the relationship between brain waves and memory during sleep.

Study Shows Common Molecular Tool Kit Organisms Share Across Tree of Life
Researchers at UT Austin discovered the assembly instructions for nearly 1,000 protein complexes shared by most kinds of animals.

Cocktail Party Effect
Your brain has to do all sorts of tricks to focus on just one voice floating in a sea of noise, including localization

Froggy Went a Courtin'
A graduate student and her advisor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin have discovered that female frogs are also prone to the...

Computer Scientists Find Mass Extinctions Can Accelerate Evolution
Robots evolve more quickly and efficiently after a virtual mass extinction modeled after real-life disasters such as the one that killed off the dinosaurs.

Two Natural Sciences Faculty Receive 2015 Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Awards
The awards program is one of the nation’s largest monetary teaching recognition programs in higher education, honoring outstanding performance in the classroom and dedication to...

Fun With Chemistry
Kate Biberdorf combines the energy of a kickboxer with a passion for chemistry and a love of sharing science with the public

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Corals Are Already Adapting to Global Warming, Scientists Say
Some coral populations already have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm ocean waters, and humans can help to spread these genes, a team of scientists...

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Military Children Will Receive More Support for Learning Math Under Dana Center Contract
The Charles A. Dana Center at UT Austin has been awarded a $12.7 million contract by the U.S. Department of Defense Education Activity to advance...

2015 Summer Blockbusters: Meet Our Science Truth Detector
With summer movie season in full swing, cinema-goers are leaving theaters with one big question in mind: “Wait, could that really happen?”
