A quasiparticle refers to a physics concept in which highly stimulated states of matter are viewed as elementary quantum particles in their own right. City…
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Mounds of snow-like frazil ice under the Antarctic ice shelf. According to research from UT Austin, Europa’s ice shell could be made of the same…
The researchers confirmed that the genetic control region they discovered only controls the expression of a sodium channel gene in muscle and no other tissues.…
The picture above depicts the Mississippi River flowing into the Gulf of Mexico. According to researchers at the University of Texas Institute for Geophysics, river…
A look at the heating and cooling sections of the mattress using a thermal camera. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Throughout the course…
Spinning motors. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin Motors are ubiquitous in our everyday lives — from cars to washing machines, even if we…
“Origin of Life” artist’s concept. The first discovery of viruses infecting a group of microbes that may include the ancestors of all complex life has…
A new electronic tattoo that can be worn comfortably on the wrist for hours delivers continuous blood pressure measurements at an accuracy level exceeding nearly…
Researchers have developed a low-cost gel film that can pull water from the air in even dry climates like the desert. More than a third…
Timelapse of plastic degradation. A new enzyme variant can break down plastics that typically take centuries to degrade in just a matter of hours to…
This schematic shows the various ejecta and winds (red and purple) given off by the exploding star (left, yellow). The common-envelope disk (blue) surrounds both…
Azimuthal anisotropy (black dashed lines showing the fast direction of wave speeds) in the mantle at 200 km depth plotted on top of vertically polarized…
An artist’s interpretation of liquid water on the surface of the Europa pooling beneath chaos terrain. Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech Salt water within the icy shell of…
Extinct dinosaurs may have had bright color on their skin, scales and beaks in a manner similar to modern birds, according to research led by…
Left: Subsurface CO2 storage. Right: CO2 migration pattern in a digitized rock sample obtained from pore-scale two-phase flow simulation. The simulation was carried out on…
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…
A view of Mars’ south pole. Research led by The University of Texas at Austin found that a 2018 discovery of liquid water under the…
Researchers including The University of Texas at Austin have published a study in Nature that says subducting tectonic plates become segmented like a slinky snake,…
Using the hydrogel tablet to purify water requires zero energy input and doesn’t create harmful byproducts. Credit: The University of Texas at Austin As much…