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Explorer and Botanist: Mary Sophie Young

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What’s the Buzz: Reflecting on a Life's Work Inspired by Pollinators

Shalene Jha has been interested in pollinators her entire life. Now, as an assistant professor, she studies the interactions of native bees and plant communities for a living.

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Visualizing Science 2016: Beautiful Images From Researchers in CNS

As part of an ongoing tradition, this past spring we invited faculty, staff and students in the College of Natural Sciences community to send us images that celebrated the wondrous beauty of science and the scientific process. We were searching for those moments where science and art meld and become one.

A simulation of subsurface waves crashing.

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Reclaiming a Lost Piece of UT Science History Linked to a Nobel Prize

The Nobel Prize-Winning Geneticist Hermann J. Muller did his research on the UT campus.

A strange contraption has a sign that reads: "In 1927, Professor Hermann Joseph Muller first demonstrated that X-rays caused inherited genetic changes. He used this X-ray machine for his early investigations. For this work he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine in 1946."