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Physics

Invisible Waves

This video still of particles suspended in water shows how internals waves can billow and mix water along the continental slope. Hidden beneath the surface of the sea, powerful “internal” waves are shaping the underwater edges of continents and contributing to ocean mixing and climate. Physicists Hepeng Zhang and Harry Swinney simulated such wave...This video still of particles suspended in water shows how internals waves can billow and mix water along the continental slope.
Integrative Biology

The Endangered Aquatic Box Turtle

The Coahuilan aquatic box turtle is found in a unique valley in Mexico called Cuatrociénegas and no where else on the planet. It's the only aquatic box turtle in the world. Scientists estimate that only about 2000 exist in the wild and their habitat is quickly shrinking due to over use of water in agriculture, climate change and invasive species. U...
College & Campus

Texas Cosmology Center Established at The University of Texas at Austin

Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu is the Director of the new Texas Center for Cosmology AUSTIN, Texas — A new interdisciplinary center for the study of the frontiers of the universe, from the tiniest subatomic particle to largest chain of galaxies, has been formed at The University of Texas at Austin. The Texas Cosmology Center will be a way for the university...Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu is the Director of the new Texas Center for Cosmology
Integrative Biology

Cactus Odyssey

In January of this year, biologist James Mauseth published the fourth edition of his textbook, Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology. It draws on his more than three decades of research and teaching in the field of plant biology, and in particular on the insights he’s gleaned from the study of cacti. I sat down with Mauseth, a professor of inte...jdm
Astronomy

Q&A with astronomer Anita Cochran, assistant director of the McDonald Observatory

Anita Cochran, assistant director of the McDonald Observatory As part of your research into the nature of comets, you’ve looked at the question of whether comets are responsible for the water in the Earth’s oceans. Why have astronomers thought this? We know comets hit the Earth. They’re about 40 percent frozen water, so it made sense to suppose t...Anita Cochran, assistant director of the McDonald Observatory
College & Campus

What the iPhone Hath Wrought

Stuart Montgomery's Fortune Ball When Apple launched its iPhone application store in July of 2008, it was like a shot heard around the world of software developers. Since then, more than 25,000 applications have been accepted by Apple for sale or free download in their applications store. Every one of the other major smart phone manufacturers ...Stuart Montgomery's Fortune Ball
Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Traced to Andes
Integrative Biology

Amazonian Amphibian Diversity Traced to Andes

AUSTIN, Texas — Colorful poison frogs in the Amazon owe their great diversity to ancestors that leapt into the region from the Andes Mountains several times during the last 10 million years, a new study from The University of Texas at Austin suggests. This is the first study to show that the Andes have been a major source of diversity for the Amaz...
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Chemistry

Cowley Honored for Advancing Inorganic Chemistry

Alan H. Cowley, the Robert A. Welch Chair in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, is being recognized for his nearly 50 years of contributions to the field of inorganic chemistry.
Chemistry

Nanoscientist Barbara Wins Bright Wilson Award

Paul Barbara, the Richard J. V. Johnson Welch Chair in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, is the recipient of this year's Bright Wilson Award for Spectroscopy.

Molecular Biosciences

The Bacteria Diet

How Pseudomonas proves so tenacious, and why it acts so differently in Cystic fibrosis-afflicted lungs than in normal human lungs, are puzzles that Whiteley has been working to solve for more than a decade.