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Alumna Supports her Love of Nature through Gifts to College of Natural Sciences

October 30, 2019 • by Staff Writer

The story of how this Lost Pines treasure landed within the College of Natural Sciences begins with UT alumna Lorraine Stengl, known to many as...

Lorraine Wyer and Casey Stengl stand in hats in an outdoor area at Stengl Lost Pines BIological Station with wildflowers in the foreground and a building farther away

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Visualizing Science 2019: Revealing Hidden Splendor in Research

October 24, 2019 • by Staff Writer

A network of gut bacteria of tadpoles from nine ponds in East Texas. Each color is a pond, and each dot is a different species of bacteria.

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Feliciano Giustino Uses Quantum Mechanics to Create New Materials

October 7, 2019 • by Cason Hunwick

Giustino stands in front of a wall of LCD screens displaying computational models

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5 Ways UT Science is Fighting Back on Microplastics

September 19, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Jace Tunnell holds a plastic nurdle between thumb and forefinger

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Explaining the Science: The Potential of Bacteriophages in a Post-Antibiotics World

August 16, 2019 • by Esther Robards-Forbes

Artist rendering of bacteriophages in yellow on bacterial cells in blue.

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Lilienfeld Prize Winner Katherine Freese Researches Dark Matter

August 8, 2019 • by Larissa Herold

The winner of the 2019 Lilienfeld Prize, given annually by the American Physical Society for outstanding contributions in physics, develops theories about dark matter and what...

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Looking Back on Apollo 11, Seeing UT Reflected in NASA History

July 9, 2019 • by Steven E. Franklin

Buzz Aldrin on the Moon with the U.S. flag

Department of Molecular BIosciences

Turning Plant Pests into Helpers

June 24, 2019 • by Staff Writer

Aphids are an enemy for most plants now, but the latest work from a team led by Jeffrey Barrick may make them a crop's new...

A field of crops with trees in the background

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Decoding a Drop of Water to Understand Life on the Texas Coast

June 10, 2019 • by Staff Writer

You can swim, but you can't hide.

Two women in hats stand in the bay waters, one holding a bucket and one with a net

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UT Marine Science Institute Teams with SeaWorld San Antonio

May 19, 2019 • by Staff Writer

When SeaWorld San Antonio unveiled and opened Turtle Reef™, featuring non-releasable sea turtles in a first-of-its-kind habitat, part of the focus was on its partnership...