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Researchers at UT Austin find the secret to increasing cotton production.

Microbiologists led by Brett Baker have discovered potential in bacteria that helped to clean up the BP oil spill.

Spending time in close contact with others often means risking catching germs and getting sick. But being sociable may also help transmit beneficial microbes, finds a multi-institutional study of gut microbiomes in chimpanzees.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have found that natural selection drives some male prairie voles to be fully monogamous and others to seek more partners. The surprising contrasts in the animals’ brains result from differences in their DNA.

Scientists have solved a longstanding mystery about how some fish seem to disappear from predators in the open waters of the ocean, a discovery that could help materials scientists and military technologists create more effective methods of ocean camouflage.

University of Texas at Austin scientists say there's a simple way for home gardeners and small farmers to give plants a pesticide-free boost: by harnessing the power of often helpful bacterial communities known as the microbiomes of plants.

A graduate student and her advisor in the Department of Integrative Biology at UT Austin have discovered that female frogs are also prone to the decoy effect.

Some coral populations already have genetic variants necessary to tolerate warm ocean waters, and humans can help to spread these genes, a team of scientists led by Misha Matz of the University of Texas at Austin has found.

People who recently have been infected with HIV may not be as highly infectious as previously believed, a finding from the lab of Lauren Ancel Meyers that could improve global efforts to prevent HIV transmission and save lives.

What if you swapped symbiotic bacteria between two strains of aphid, would the resulting aphids look or act differently than their mothers?