Stampede2, Bridges simulations show weak spots in virus nucleocapsid. In the midst of a global pandemic with COVID-19, it’s hard to appreciate how lucky those…
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This 3D model of a polymer desalination membrane shows water flow — the silver channels, moving from top to bottom — avoiding dense spots in…
The jagged terrain of Greenland’s mountains is protecting some of the island’s outlet glaciers from warm coastal waters, according to a team of researchers that…
Jackson School Assistant Professor Daniella Rempe (in white hat) and colleagues from the Eel River Critical Zone Observatory and Ben Gurion University install specialized sampling…
Faster, smaller, smarter and more energy-efficient chips for everything from consumer electronics to big data to brain-inspired computing could soon be on the way after…
Texas Advanced Computing Center’s Stampede2 supercomputer simulates 3D structure of vortex breakdown with combustion. Lightning struck a bourbon warehouse, setting fire to a cache of…
Still from an animation of the inspiral of a binary black hole with a 128:1 mass ratio showing the beginning of the final burst of…
The soil pulls water out of the air during cooler, humid periods at night and then releases it when activated by solar energy during the…
At the onset of the coronavirus pandemic, there were high hopes that hot summer temperatures could reduce its spread. Although summer didn’t bring widespread relief,…
The number of virus strains present in each zip code in Houston during the second wave of COVID-19 cases in summer 2020. Number of strains…
‘Galactic archaeology’ refers to the study of second generation stars to learn about the physical characteristics of the first stars, which disappeared only tens of…
Manatees lived in Texas during the last ice age, according to fossil evidence found along Texas beaches. Credit: Robert Bonde / U.S. Geological Survey Manatees…
Cracking the Code of a Scientific Anomaly: Decades-Old Mystery of Lithium-Ion Battery Storage Solved
Cracking the Code of a Scientific Anomaly: Decades-Old Mystery of Lithium-Ion Battery Storage Solved
Battery testing system in Dr. Yu’s Lab for developing advanced electrode materials. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin For years, researchers have aimed to…
A computer simulation of the Earth’s magnetic field, which is generated by heat transfer in the Earth’s core. Credit: NASA/ Gary A.Glatzmaier By creating conditions…
Patients with undiagnosed flu symptoms who actually had COVID-19 last winter were among thousands of undetected early cases of the disease at the beginning of…
This is a 3D atomic scale map, or molecular structure, of Hexapro, a modified version of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, described in a paper in…
Researchers in the Cockrell School of Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin have built a new type of battery that combines the many…
Still from a simulation of individual galaxies forming, starting at a time when the Universe was just a few million years old. Credit: Hopkins Research…
Hollywood made the Dilophosaurus famous, depicting it as almost adorable little creature with a hidden, deadly twist. But a new study shows that it was…
In 2011, Chilean scientists discovered a mysterious fossil in Antarctica that looked like a deflated football. For nearly a decade, the specimen sat unlabeled and…