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Next Time You Beat a Virus, Thank Your Microbial Ancestors
Two of our key defenses against viruses have persisted for billions of years, arising before complex life.
![Two curly ribbons, one purple and one green, represent the three dimensional shapes of two related proteins](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/asgard_euk-viperins_2400x1600.jpg)
Marine Science Institute
Digging into the Soil: Shedding Light on Unknown Players in Methane Production
A new study looks at metabolic processes in the previously understudied microbes called Asgard archaea in the soils of freshwater wetlands.
![Sunset over wetlands](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/wetlands-emerson-1200x800.jpg)
AI Opens Door to Safe, Effective New Antibiotics to Combat Resistant Bacteria
Protein large language models identify ways to make antibiotics better at targeting dangerous bacteria, without being toxic to humans.
![A green bacteria-shaped object with a red arrow piercing through its center. The bacteria is surrounded by concentric circles and smaller, blue, bacteria-like shapes. The background is a light blue grid with a pattern of binary code.](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/antibiotics3_2.jpg)
College of Natural Sciences Faculty Receive NSF CAREER Awards
The awards from the National Science Foundation support innovative work by earlier-career faculty.
![Photos of five faculty members around the logo of the National Science Foundation](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/nsf_awardees_3x2.png)
The Koltz Lab’s Work With Dung Beetles
They sound funny, but they provide important ecological services in the Lone Star State.
![A dung beetle with a ball of dung](/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/dung-beetle.png)
Oden Institute
Summer School on Quantum Materials
Feliciano Guistino led a week-long workshop for graduate-level students in modern techniques for computational data science and high-performance computing.
![Students in a lecture hall discussing a problem and looking at laptop screens](https://cns.utexas.edu/sites/default/files/uploads/images/default/tutorial_1.jpg)