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Landscape for Life Helps Homeowners Create Healthy, Beautiful Gardens
Washington, D.C. — A new Web site developed by the United States Botanic Garden and the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center at The University of Texas at Austin brings homeowners comprehensive, accessible advice on creating nature-friendly, sustainable landscapes at home, no matter where they live. The new site at Landscape for Life provides a laym...Dark Energy: Speeding Up the Universe
The Texas Cosmology Center takes to video to explore the mysteries of dark energy, which is believed to constitute about 70 percent of all the matter and energy in the universe.Dinosaurs Just Want to Cuddle
Fossils suggest the Sarahsaurus was more like Barney than T-Rex.Going All In
Elaine Sedenberg, a fifth-year honors biochemistry major, talks about the twists and turns of her academic career.Insight: October 2010
In this issue of the undergraduate newsletter, we look forward to Family Weekend.Like Father, Like Daughter
Fighting cancer with chemist Brent Iverson and his daughter Alanna, a second-year math major.UT researcher studies cancer
Lauren Ehrlich, assistant professor of molecular genetics and microbiology, is looking into why T-cells become cancerous.
New Fossil Suggests Dinosaurs Not So Fierce After All
A new species of dinosaur discovered in Arizona suggests dinosaurs did not spread throughout the world by overpowering other species, but by taking advantage of a natural catastrophe that wiped out their competitors.
The Physics of Disaster (Movies)
At Science Study Break sessions, faculty members explain the real science, pseudo science and utter nonsense behind popular entertainments.Read It Now
Read our publication, The Texas Scientist, a digest covering the people and groundbreaking discoveries that make the College of Natural Sciences one of the most amazing and significant places on Earth.
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