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Freshmen learn how to do research while increasing our understanding of biodiversity

We asked graduating seniors from across the college to share their best tips for research success.

Across the animal kingdom, males and females of the same species are often locked in an evolutionary battle of the sexes.

UT Austin researchers have identified a brain circuit in mice that might enable the high-speed back and forth of human conversation.

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.

More severe droughts caused by climate change and increasing water use in Central Texas have left groundwater salamanders “highly vulnerable to extinction.”

In five cases where vertebrates evolved monogamy, the same changes in gene expression occurred each time.

Urban sophistication has real sex appeal — at least if you’re a Central American amphibian. Male frogs in cities are more attractive to females than their forest-frog counterparts, according to a new study from Mike Ryan and others published in Nature Ecology and Evolution.

Winners of the 2018 Visualizing Science contest include images of nanomaterials, the connection between chaos and electronics and a glimpse into the aural lives of the elderly.