New Cell Dysfunction Discovery Sheds Light on HIV
A team of chemical and biomedical engineers from the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin, in collaboration with researchers from…
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Nanotweezers Open the Door to New Innovations in Medicine, Mobile Tech
It’s difficult to conceptualize a world where humans could casually manipulate nanoscale objects at will or even control their own biological matter at a cellular…
Ultra-Thin ‘Atomristors’ Pave the Way for More Powerful Computing
Engineers worldwide have been developing alternative ways to provide greater memory storage capacity on even smaller computer chips. Previous research into two-dimensional atomic sheets for…
Supercomputers Help Tailor Cancer Treatments to Individual Patients
Attempts to eradicate cancer are often compared to a “moonshot” — the successful effort that sent the first astronauts to the moon. But imagine if,…
Astronomers Discover Eighth Planet Circling Kepler-90
The discovery of an eighth planet circling the distant star Kepler-90 by University of Texas at Austin astronomer Andrew Vanderburg and Google’s Christopher Shallue overturns…
Advanced Chemical Oscillator Offers New Level of Molecular Control
DNA molecules that follow specific instructions could offer more precise molecular control of synthetic chemical systems, a discovery that opens the door for engineers to…
How Dietary Fat Affects Stem Cell Differentiation
You are what you eat when it comes to fat, report scientists from McGovern Medical School at The University of Texas Health Science Center at…
Magma Ocean Reshaped the Moon’s Crust
The Earth’s Moon had a rough start in life. Formed from a chunk of the Earth that was lopped off during a planetary collision, it…
XSEDE ECSS Program Helps Probe Space Oddities
Black holes make for a great space mystery. They’re so massive that nothing, not even light, can escape a black hole once it gets close…
SOFIA Investigates Cool Dust Around Energetic Active Black Holes
Using observations from NASA’s Stratospheric Observatory for Infrared Astronomy (SOFIA), scientists at the University of Texas San Antonio found that the dust surrounding active, ravenous…
Astronomers Put Basic Principle of Black Holes to the Test
A team of astronomers has put a basic principle of black holes to the test, showing that matter completely vanishes when pulled in. Their results…
Astronomers Discover Evidence of a ‘Direct-Collapse Black Hole’
A newly published study details evidence for a direct collapse black hole in the Lyman α source CR7. Astronomers Aaron Smith and Volker Bromm of…
Scientists Discover a Binary Companion for a Type Ia Supernova
A newly published study details evidence for the interaction between a normal Type Ia supernova and a non-degenerate binary companion. A team of astronomers including…
Yale Study Shows Gut Bacteria Aggressively Protect Their Territory
A newly published study from Yale University details how human gut bacteria take on many tasks crucial to health. Bacterially speaking, it gets very crowded…
New Threat to East Antarctic Ice
New research reveals two seafloor gateways that could allow warm ocean water to reach the base of Totten Glacier, raising concerns about how it will…
New Circuits That Can Control Light and Sound
A team of researchers has developed hybrid technologies that can control light and sound, allowing information to be stored, filtered, and manipulated with far greater…
Texas Engineers Build World’s Smallest, Fastest Nanomotor
Assembled from nanoscale building blocks with nanowires as rotors, patterned nanomagnets as bearings, and quadrupole microelectrodes as stators, researchers at the Cockrell School of Engineering…
Astronomers Discover Stars Rotating Around a Common Axis in Globular Clusters
Using the new Integral Field Unit instrument VIRUS-W in conjunction with the 2.7-meter Harlan J. Smith Telescope, astronomers discovered that stars at the centers of…