Gene editing—with the promise of treating disease, improving crops and studying life itself—“has been one of the fastest bench-to-bedside technologies ever.”
Beachcombing Goes High Tech
A chemist and an engineer are building a robot to spot microplastics on the coast.
Global Tree Census
AI, drones and lidar can enable long-term monitoring of forests globally.
The Graduate Student
Audrick Pyronneau
The Faculty Member
Stella Offner
The Alum
John “Chip” Breier
The Undergraduate
Ananya Tirumala
Peeking into Young Minds
The UT Lab School gears up to celebrate a century of research and education.
Postcard from Kalathupatty
Years after UT students built a library in rural India, a math student sees its impacts firsthand.
Launched 20 years ago, the Freshman Research Initiative has become a national model for teaching hands-on STEM to undergraduates.
Meet the Texas Grue Jay
Climate change is bringing together species that rarely, if ever, crossed paths.
Serendipitous Splendor
Sometimes beauty emerges when you’re busy looking for something else.
Futhering Fusion
A computational trick can lower the time and cost of designing fusion reactors.
Helping Minds
Volunteering can significantly slow cognitive decline in older adults.
Locating Linguistic Origins
Ancient DNA helped map out where Hungarian and Finnish languages came from.
Patented Protein Design
AI models are speeding drug design for Alzheimer’s, cancer and pathogens.
