Bizarre Underwater Snow Gives Clues About the Icy Shell of Jupiter’s Moon Europa
Below the thick icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged…
Below the thick icy crust of Jupiter’s moon Europa is a massive, global ocean where the snow floats upwards onto inverted ice peaks and submerged…
Melanoma is a potentially deadly form of skin cancer that affects people of every racial and ethnic group. Exposure to ultraviolet, or UV, rays from…
Recent earthquakes in West Texas have been connected to oil and gas operations. The number of earthquakes has been steadily increasing in the West Texas…
Researchers have discovered how electric fish acquired electric organs. Electric fish, like the electric eel, can distinguish other electric fish by species, sex, and even…
Research shows how the Gulf of Mexico survived a prehistoric mass extinction. According to research by the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics (UTIG), an…
Throughout the course of a day, people alternate between feeling alert and sleepy. This sensation is actually controlled in part by the ebb and flow…
Motors are ubiquitous in our everyday lives — from cars to washing machines, even if we rarely notice them. A futuristic scientific field is working…
The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has been found, scientists at The…
Blood pressure is one of the most important indicators of heart health, but it’s tough to frequently and reliably measure outside of a clinical setting….
More than a third of the world’s population lives in drylands, areas that experience significant water shortages. Engineers and scientists at The University of Texas…
A new enzyme variant can break down environment-throttling plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to days. It was …
A multinational team of astronomers led by Benjamin Thomas of The University of Texas at Austin has used observations from the Hobby-Eberly Telescope (HET) at…
High resolution illumination of Earth’s interior down to the planet’s core with 3D global numerical simulations. Earthquakes do more than buckle streets and topple buildings….
Salt water within the icy shell of Jupiter’s moon Europa could be transporting oxygen into an ice-covered ocean of liquid water where it could potentially…
New study from The University of Texas at Austin traces the probability of color from modern bids to dinosaurs. Most birds aren’t as colorful as…
University of Texas researcher identifies factors for safe and effective carbon capture and storage. The road to a stabilized climate is challenging and contentious. A…
New method from Clemson University researcher, enabled by Frontera supercomputer, helps explain role of phonons in copper-based superconductivity. Researchers have known about high-temperature superconducting copper-based…
Liquid water previously detected under Mars’ ice-covered south pole is probably just a dusty mirage, according to a new study of the red planet led…