Troubled Waters: A rare desert spring ecosystem considered one of Mexico's 13 natural wonders is threatened
Sprawling across a cactus-studded valley in México's Chihuahuan Desert is a place like no other on the planet.
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The Endangered Aquatic Box Turtle
The Coahuilan aquatic box turtle is found in a unique valley in Mexico called Cuatrociénegas and no where else on the planet. It's the only aquatic box turtle in the world. Scientists estimate that only about 2000 exist in the wild and their habitat is quickly shrinking due to over use of water in agriculture, climate change and invasive species. U...
Higher Ground
Aletha Huston,professor in the School of Human Ecology, is one of the co-authors of "Higher Ground: New Hope for the Working Poor and Their Children," which was published in 2007. The year was 1995. Bill Clinton, a Democrat, had campaigned for the presidency on the promise to end welfare as we knew it. The Republican party had just taken control...
Bard Named Distinguished Scientist by Southeastern Research Association
The Southeastern Universities Research Association (SURA) today announced that Allen Bard, the Hackerman-Welch Regents Chair in Chemistry at The University of Texas at Austin, will receive its 2009 Distinguished Scientist Award.
Bolnick, Wallingford Become HHMI Early Career Scientists
Two University of Texas at Austin biologists join 50 of the nation's best early career science faculty to focus on their boldest and potentially transformative research ideas with support from a new initiative from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI).
Oral Fixations
Graduate student Matthew Ramsey is working with Dr. Marvin Whiteley to better understand the complex ecologies of bacteria living in the human mouth. When microbiologist Marvin Whiteley and graduate student Matthew Ramsey began peering into the human mouth, as part of an ongoing quest to understand more about the ways that bacteria form complex ec...
Texas Cosmology Center Established at The University of Texas at Austin
Dr. Eiichiro Komatsu is the Director of the new Texas Center for Cosmology AUSTIN, Texas — A new interdisciplinary center for the study of the frontiers of the universe, from the tiniest subatomic particle to largest chain of galaxies, has been formed at The University of Texas at Austin. The Texas Cosmology Center will be a way for the university...
Cactus Odyssey
In January of this year, biologist James Mauseth published the fourth edition of his textbook, Botany: An Introduction to Plant Biology. It draws on his more than three decades of research and teaching in the field of plant biology, and in particular on the insights he’s gleaned from the study of cacti. I sat down with Mauseth, a professor of inte...
Q&A with astronomer Anita Cochran, assistant director of the McDonald Observatory
Anita Cochran, assistant director of the McDonald Observatory As part of your research into the nature of comets, you’ve looked at the question of whether comets are responsible for the water in the Earth’s oceans. Why have astronomers thought this? We know comets hit the Earth. They’re about 40 percent frozen water, so it made sense to suppose t...
What the iPhone Hath Wrought
Stuart Montgomery's Fortune Ball When Apple launched its iPhone application store in July of 2008, it was like a shot heard around the world of software developers. Since then, more than 25,000 applications have been accepted by Apple for sale or free download in their applications store. Every one of the other major smart phone manufacturers ...
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