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Posts highlighting some of the many articles mentioning College of Natural Sciences faculty and students in the media.
Sea turtles hit by Arctic blast find warm refuge
The Animal Rehabilitation Keep's efforts to handle cold-stunned sea turtles is featured in this Statesman story with a video interview with Tony Amos.What’s Next for the Arctic Ocean?
Marine scientist Ken Dunton talks with Alaska Public Radio about the future of the Arctic Ocean. Listen online.Building the Most Powerful Laser in the World
Todd Ditmire plans to build an exawatt laser with a power equivalent to 1,000 petawatts. Read the full story.UT museum gives kids a free look at nature past and present
The Texas Memorial Museum is for dinosaur-crazed kids and showcases all kinds of natural marvels from shells to meteorites to a mammoth's long incisor. Read the full story.Review: Lake Views
Steven Weinberg’s second collection of essays, "Lake Views," covers a range of topics, from religion and Armageddon to the “Future of Science, and the Universe.” Read the full review.Using a Virus’s Knack for Mutating to Wipe It Out
Evolution is a virus’s secret weapon. The virus can rapidly slip on new disguises to evade our immune systems, and it can become resistant to antiviral drugs. But some scientists are turning the virus’s secret weapon against it. Read the full story featuring biologists Claus Wilke and James Bull.UT System: BFL will stay on Lady Bird Lake
University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously agreed not to move Brackenridge Field Lab from a 350-acre tract under consideration for commercial and residential development. Read the full story.UTeach replicated at Middle Tennessee State University
Middle Tennessee State University (MTSU) has received a five-year, $1.925 million grant to replicate UTeach.UT student wins Marshall Scholarship
Grace Eckhoff, a biology major, will use the prize to study at the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine. Read the story here.UT scientists weed out switch grass in search for biofuel
In experiments, they hope to learn which varieties will fare best in a changing climate.Desert sky may yield answers
Six astronomers huddled around a cluster of glowing monitors, wrapping up a six-day test run for a $34 million experiment that will keep the McDonald Observatory’s largest telescope busy for three years, probing the mysteries of dark energy...Read the full article.Unlocking the Mystery to Addiction
Waggoner Center for Alcohol and Addiction Research is featured in this story on Fox 7 News. Read the full article here.UT researching H1N1 with supercomputer
Lauren Ancel Meyers models H1N1 in effort to aid the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in their work to protect against the flu pandemic. Read the full article.Radio transmitters help kids track snakes like hawks
Herpetologist Travis LaDuc works with area teacher and students to map and study snake ecology on their campus. Read the full article.Read It Now
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