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Spooky Science: Arctic Wolf Spiders’ Eating Habits Are Shifting Over Time

Integrative biology professor Amanda Koltz explores the ways that arctic wolf spiders’ diets are shifting over time in a recent paper.

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Student Researchers Gain Hands-On Experience in UT’s Turtle Pond

Since 2022, students have recorded data on the turtles on UT’s campus, and they recently published their research.

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Publishing in a Leading Journal as Undergraduates

Three undergraduate researchers published with a team in Nature, shedding new light on a microbe and its host.

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New Model Shows How Behavioral Flexibility Affects Animal Evolution

Animals able to change behaviors but slow to evolve might fare better than previously thought amid climate change.

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Wildflowers Mix it Up to Survive Drought

Researchers at UC Davis, UT and elsewhere use global data on plants and droughts to create framework for planning.

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Which Mating Call to Choose? People Are in Accord with Bugs, Bats and Frogs

Music to the ears of amorous amphibians and other creatures sounds best to humans, too, a new study finds.

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Rooted in Nature: A Bio-Inspired Strategy Using Bacteria to Enhance Plant Fitness

A biologist takes inspiration from fungus-growing ants in his research with microbes that grow on roots in soil.

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A Break in a Longstanding Mystery about Origin of Complex Life

Breathe easy. It appears our microbial ancestors used oxygen, too.

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Destroying Crazy Ant Nest Structure Makes Them Vulnerable to Pathogens

Research initiated at a UT field station keeps progressing. That is good news for a war on an invasive species.