Tweet Todd Ditmire leads the way into his new laboratory below Robert Lee Moore Hall. “We’re two floors underground and we’re about to go one more floor down to where we’re under the high bay,” the physics professor says, walking down a flight of stairs. “We’re underneath the plaza in front of Moore, three floors …
Tweet NASA scientists surveying water resources around the world with a pair of satellites 320 miles above Earth noticed something unusual in northwestern India in 2009. Farmers in the area known as the Bread Basket of India, which encompasses 438,000 square kilometers, were emptying the region’s aquifer faster than it could be replenished. Further investigation …
Tweet In the 1920s, J.T. Patterson, the chairman of the Department of Zoology at The University of Texas at Austin, wanted to push his school into the top ranks of genetic research. So he did what Texans do, he recruited a top player for his team. The recruit was Hermann J. Muller, a born-and-raised New …
Tweet This story was published on the Research page of the University of Texas at Austin website. Camille Parmesan grew up in Houston, where oil was not only the city’s business, it was her family’s business. Her mother, Dorothy Johnson Parmesan was a geologist for Magnolia Oil Co., and Parmesan’s sister, Anne Gafford, now works …
Tweet It’s Ticketpalooza Day at WP Engine, the Austin-based company that offers managed hosting services for WordPress-based websites. About 30 members of the company’s support staff are gathered around two long tables fielding calls from customers having problems with their websites. The support reps tap on their laptops, lean over to look at a neighbor’s computer …
Tweet The way Stanislav Emelianov puts it, Mother Nature presented us with the puzzle of breast cancer. But Mother Nature has also provided the tools with which we solve the puzzle. Emelianov and other researchers in the Department of Biomedical Engineering at The University of Texas at Austin give Mother Nature a boost with their engineering acumen …
Tweet Mars might be named for the god of war in Roman mythology, but today it’s ruled by Aeolus, who in Greek mythology had dominion over wind. As other geologic processes have faded in impact, wind is the force that has the greatest current bearing on shaping geology on the planet where change has occurred …
Tweet Vacations are pretty much over for the summer. Mary went back to school this week. The Little Nippers showed up on Tuesday. Such joy! Katie goes back next week. And Kiefer’s off to college! Chris goes back—or not—whenever the heck she feels like. So here’s a quick look back: Saugatuck Day One Most of …