News

The Texas Scientist

The Mating Game

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

UT News

In Singing Mice, Scientists Find Clue to Our Own Rapid Conversations

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

Podcast

All in the (Scientific) Family

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

Features

Playing With Fire: Ant-Agonists

Features

Sprinting for Dung Beetles

Podcast

Bringing Real Science to the Big Screen

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

Research

Central Texas Salamanders, Including Newly Identified Species, At Risk of Extinction

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

Research

Evolution Used Same Genetic Formula to Turn Animals Monogamous

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

UT News

Females Prefer City Frogs’ Tunes

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.