Research

Publishing in a Leading Journal as Undergraduates

Three undergraduate researchers published with a team in Nature, shedding new light on a microbe and its host.

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Science vs. Screwworms: How UT Research Inspired Our Best Weapon

Key to earlier eradications of the threat was a University of Texas discovery that’s still proving useful today.

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Can This Scientist’s Proposal Save Coral Reefs in Our Hemisphere?

Evolutionary expert Misha Matz makes a splash with a controversial proposal that could save Caribbean coral reefs.

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Inside the Tower’s Herbarium

The Billy L. Turner Plant Resources Center, a research collection, holds a vast array of Texas specimens.

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New Model Shows How Behavioral Flexibility Affects Animal Evolution

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

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Wildflowers Mix it Up to Survive Drought

Researchers at UC Davis, UT and elsewhere use global data on plants and droughts to create framework for planning.

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Which Mating Call to Choose? People Are in Accord with Bugs, Bats and Frogs

Music to the ears of amorous amphibians and other creatures sounds best to humans, too, a new study finds.

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Rooted in Nature: A Bio-Inspired Strategy Using Bacteria to Enhance Plant Fitness

A biologist takes inspiration from fungus-growing ants in his research with microbes that grow on roots in soil.

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Microplastics in the Sand: Beach Combing Goes High Tech

A UT chemist says it is now time to develop tests for microplastics, similar to tests for other toxic threats.

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Microbiology and Mentoring: Meet Grad Student Mariangel Correa Orellana

Driven by her love for the ocean, one student studies how Hawaiian shrimp interact with microbes and temperature.