Astronomy on Tap ATX (AoTATX) is usually held on the second or third Tuesday of every month at Celis Brewing. AoTATX is currently organized by a committee of Austin-based astronom ...

Three undergraduate researchers published with a team in Nature, shedding new light on a microbe and its host.

UT Nutritional Sciences professor Michele Hockett Cooper takes us from the sun-drenched tables of Sicily to school gardens right here in Austin, exploring how hands-on food experiences shape the way ...

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Information about postdoctoral funding opportunities is regularly updated, and workshops are available to help you prepare funding proposals. If you need help identifying the departmental support ...

The rare hybrid offspring of a blue jay and a green jay is likely a result of weather-related shifts in the range of two species. A rare hybrid bird identified in a suburb of San Antonio, Texas ...

A panel of physicists and astronomers grapple with possible cracks in our modern creation myth, the standard model of cosmology. JWST’s image of spiral galaxy NGC 628, which is 32 million light-years ...

The work relies in part on a transformer model, similar to the ones that power ChatGPT. Alex Huth (left), Shailee Jain (center) and Jerry Tang (right) prepare to collect brain activity data in the ...

This year’s 16 newcomers deepen the college’s bench in a wide range of areas, including artificial intelligence, cosmology, ecology, obesity, human relationships and materials science. Each year, the ...

Each year, programs at UT have offerings for high schoolers and school children with an interest in science and technology. Camps from Women in STEM are among the offerings available this summer for ...

Breathe easy. It appears our microbial ancestors used oxygen, too. In December 2025, Brett Baker led a research cruise to collect microbial genomes off the coast of Uruguay. In this photo, Tyler Smith ...

An era of precision gravitational astronomy has arrived, and UT physicists are helping lead the way. Researcher working on one of the mirrors of the Virgo gravitational wave detector. Photo credit: ...