The longest natural metagenome time series ever collected reveals a startling evolutionary pattern on repeat. The team analyzed genetic material from microbes in a one-of-a-kind archive of water ...

The American Mathematical Society chose UT Austin’s Seán Keel and his co-authors for the prize, given every three years. Seán Keel of The University of Texas at Austin will receive the 2025 AMS E.H.

Lief Fenno and a team from St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital traced connectivity between neurons to identify how the ...

Celebrate everything feathered, furred, smooth and scaled at Texas Science & Natural History Museum! Learn about Texas wildlife past and present, and participate in hands-on activities led by local ...

Wheeler takes a critical look at groundbreaking technologies—AI, genetic engineering, automation—and the profound ethical dilemmas they pose. In this conversation, Wheeler will address the impact of ...

Meet the team behind a newly transformed experiential-learning biology course, reaching hundreds of UT students. Students in BIO 206L take soil samples and isolate their own bacteria in the search for ...

As students prepare to go on break, the turtles are away from the main campus, too. As cooler weather quickly approaches, students will soon be going on fall break, taking time away from the hustle ...

Ilya Finkelstein’s research focuses on improving gene editing, understanding DNA repair and finding disease treatments. Ilya Finkelstein, associate professor of molecular biosciences at The University ...

The College of Natural Sciences is UT Austin’s largest college, home to top-ranked academic specialties, a dozen departments and award-winning student programs and faculty.

Both educational experiences and out-of-class ones bring students together to explore, learn and think through challenges in teams. Incoming students get matched to a small learning community, called ...