From the morning birds and the squirrels roaming in the day to, eventually, the raccoons coming out at night, a variety of animals call The University of Texas at Austin…

Founded in 1941, The University of Texas at Austin Marine Science Institute in Port Aransas is the oldest marine research facility on the Texas coast. The institute is dedicated to…

As the world continues to reckon with the future of artificial intelligence, researchers and educators at The University of Texas at Austin are exploring the possibilities for the technology. Recently,…

The roof is gone, and the walls have been stripped away. The 12 primary support columns hold the last of the building together, resembling a rib cage on a carcass.…

In recent years, natural disasters and human error have temporarily left the people of Austin without clean water, sometimes for days at a time. In both Hurricane Harvey in 2017…

In May 2022, The University of Texas at Austin rolled out Change Starts Here, an ambitious 10-year plan to make UT the highest-impact public research university in the world. The…

Science fiction has been heralding the advancement of artificial intelligence for decades. Through characters ranging from Samantha in “Her” to C-3PO in “Star Wars” and Data in “Star Trek,” creatives…

The Great Hall at the Texas Memorial Museum is empty, save for the 36-foot-wide flying reptile Quetzalcoatlus hanging overhead and the scaffolding lining the high ceilings. The large collection of…

Lady Bird Johnson traveled through the South in 1964 to garner support for her husband’s Civil Rights Act. She opted to travel by train in order to visit more rural…

In a childhood memory, David Hillis recalls the time when the woodlands of Lwiro in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo were unexpectedly pleasant. The region, where the…

At the glassy blue waters’ edge of Greenland’s fjords sits the world’s second-largest ice sheet measuring between 6,600 and 9,800 feet thick and covering 660,000 square miles. The ice is…

Laura Klopfenstein arrives home from campus at 5 p.m. and changes out of her work clothes. She spends quality time with her family, then steps into the artist’s role. Klopfenstein…