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Wednesday, 23 February 2011

Demons, Entropy, and the Quest for Absolute Zero

A 19th-century thought experiment has turned into a real technique for reaching ultralow temperatures, paving the way to new scientific discoveries as well as to useful applications, writes physicist Mark Raizen in the March 2011 issue of Scientific American.

Thursday, 17 February 2011

Health IT Program Gets New Home In Hackerman Building

Nationally recognized program will bring expanded opportunities to students and health care workers in the new building.

Wednesday, 16 February 2011

Digital Digits: Dino Footprint Secrets Revealed

Our Glen Rose Dino Tracks get a mention in this research on using computer modeling to better understand fossil dinosaur tracks.

Tuesday, 15 February 2011

What It Takes to Join the Military

A Pentagon report says that 75 percent of young people between the age of 17 to 24 are unfit to serve in the military because they are out of shape, lack education or have a criminal history. Professor Elizabeth Gershoff from the Department of Human Development and Family Sciences speaks with Fox 7 News about the root of the problem. She says that ...

Monday, 14 February 2011

Three Cheers for Watson

Computer scientists Bruce Porter, Ray Mooney and Ken Barker contributed expertise to IBM's Watson computer, which competes against humans on Jeopardy! this week.

Friday, 11 February 2011

Unique Fossil Dinosaur Tracks Need A New Home

The Texas Natural Science Center has embarked on a million dollar campaign to save the fossilized tracks of two dinosaurs, a sauropod and theropod, from degrading.

Friday, 11 February 2011

IBM to honor three from UT for input on Watson super-computer project

Computer scientists on the team that has developed advanced programing for IBM's computer named Watson.

Thursday, 10 February 2011

College of Natural Sciences To Transform Intro Courses Impacting More Than 10,000 Students

Biology, chemistry and statistics have been selected by the provost’s office to launch the university’s Course Transformation Program (CTP).

Wednesday, 09 February 2011

Wann Langston & the Mosasaur

Visit "Mo" and get a taste of life more than 65 millions years ago.

Tuesday, 08 February 2011

The Texas Shaman

Dr. Dionicio Siegel, Texas Shaman Congrats to Dio Siegel for winning a 2011 Dreyfus Special Grant in Chemical Sciences. His proposal was titled “Texas Shamans, a Study of Chemistry and Conservation of Native Texas Plants” and the 2-year award also comes with matching funds from UT Austin. I wrote about Siegel and his shamanic tendencies twice in ...