Medicine Nobel given for immunology
DALLAS — Dr. Bruce Beutler is sharing this year’s Nobel Prize in medicine but on Tuesday he was singled out and praised at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center in Dallas where he began...
View ArticleIsraeli scientist receives Nobel Prize in Chemistry
JERUSALEM — When Israeli scientist Dan Shechtman claimed to have stumbled upon a new crystalline chemical structure, colleagues mocked him, insulted him and exiled him from his research group. After...
View ArticleNational Science Foundation releases recommendations that impact UT Antartica...
Projects in Antarctica by UT researchers in the Institute for Geophysics could be affected by a summary of plans released by the National Science Foundation to improve research and facilities in the...
View ArticleChemistry professor Allen Bard wins Enrico Fermi Award
President Barack Obama awarded chemistry professor Allen Bard with the Enrico Fermi Award, a $50,000 prize he will share with Andrew Sessler, director emeritus of the Lawrence Berkeley National...
View ArticleUT study finds fracking uses same amount of water as conventional oil production
A study led by a UT researcher found that the amount of water used for unconventional gas and oil production, such as hydraulic fracturing, is about the same as is used for conventional production. The...
View ArticleScience Scene: UT postdoctoral student studies rapid evolution in lizards
As a child, Yoel Stuart played with snakes. Now as a postdoctoral researcher at UT, he plays with anole lizards as a scientist.A recent study he worked on has received a lot of attention after his...
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