In the latest evidence that meaningful social connections bolster health, a team from The University of Texas at Austin and ...

UT faculty in computer science and physics won an NSF award recognizing their potential to serve as academic role models.

A new artificial intelligence system called a semantic decoder can translate a person’s brain activity — while listening to a story or silently imagining telling a story — into a continuous stream of ...

The worldwide decline in frog populations is due to a fast-spreading infection, but people also play a role, UT Austin's Anat Belasen and team found.

The University of Texas at Austin has been chosen to lead a new institute that harnesses artificial intelligence to explore some of the leading mysteries of the universe, including dark matter and the ...

The Department of Computer Science and the Good Systems program present a one semester-credit-hour course titled “Essentials of AI for Life and Society.” Credit: The University of Texas at Austin ...

Scientists have harnessed bacteria, biosensors and artificial intelligence and are one step closer to fermenting an Alzheimer's drug.

Deaths from coal were highest in 1999, but by 2020 decreased by about 95%, as coal plants have installed scrubbers or shut down. From 1999–2020, approximately 460,000 deaths in the Medicare population ...

Thanks to the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers racing to find some of the earliest galaxies ever glimpsed have now confirmed that a galaxy first detected last summer is in fact among the ...

Seagrasses store a lot of carbon in their tissues, making them a potential counterweight to rising levels of atmospheric CO2.

Sparks literally fly when a sperm and an egg hit it off. Chemists helped detect how the fertilized mammalian egg releases from its surface billions of zinc atoms in "zinc sparks," one wave after ...