Six University of Texas at Austin faculty members were announced today as recipients of Sloan Research Fellowships from the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, putting UT Austin at the forefront among public universities boasting winners this year.

A pair of researchers at The University of Texas at Austin has demonstrated an AI-based tool that can translate a person’s thoughts into continuous text, without requiring the person to comprehend spoken words.

Researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and University of California, Los Angeles, have developed a conductive ink that can be printed directly on the surface of a patient’s head and measure their brainwaves.

The University of Texas at Austin is among the top universities in the world for solving society’s most difficult scientific challenges using an interdisciplinary approach, bridging knowledge and discovery across multiple fields of study to focus on a single problem.

The University of Texas at Austin will partner with industry and the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations to build and expand a hub for hydrogen energy production along the Texas Gulf Coast that will help increase and diversify the nation’s energy supply.

The Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin has long supported Nobel Prize recipient David Baker's pioneering work in developing methods for using computers to predict how proteins fold, whereby their shape reveals important reactive properties such as electrostatic potential and hydrophobicity.

A new artificial intelligence model developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin paves the way for more effective and less toxic treatments and new preventive strategies in medicine. The AI model informs the design of protein-based therapies and vaccines by leveraging the underlying logic from nature’s evolutionary processes.

The University of Texas at Austin has been chosen to lead a new institute that harnesses artificial intelligence to explore some of the leading mysteries of the universe, including dark matter and the fundamentals related to the search for life. Housed in UT’s Oden Institute for Computational Sciences and Engineering, the NSF-Simons AI Institute for Cosmic Origins will be funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Simons Foundation.

Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered an antibody able to neutralize all known variants of SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, as well as distantly related SARS-like coronaviruses that infect other animals.

The University of Texas at Austin operates some of the world’s fastest and largest computers. Take a look inside the Texas Advanced Computing Center at the processors that drive some of the world’s most important discoveries.