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In honor of the impending total solar eclipse on April 8th, we present this special eclipse podcast.

Biologist Edward LeBrun is weaponizing a natural pathogen to use as a biocontrol for tawny crazy ants from South America that have become prevalent in the southeastern US.

Frogs are also struggling through their own pandemic that has several eerie parallels with COVID-19.

According to a new review in the journal Science, when highly social animals — such as ants, mice and bats — get sick, their social interactions change, too.

An epidemiologist and two molecular bioscientists get to the bottom of your burning COVID-19 questions.

Biologist David Hillis aims to discover the 80 percent of species on Earth that scientists know nothing about in the next few decades.

Scientists often talk about the people who mentored them, and the students and postdocs they supervise, in ways that sound like a family.

Scientist Kip Thorne talks with his former graduate student Bill Press about what it's like to work on a major Hollywood film.

Last year, University of Texas at Austin alumnus Michael Young won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering the molecular mechanism behind circadian rhythms.