July 31, 2024
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Astronomers Use AI To Find Elusive Stars ‘Gobbling Up’ Planets
By using a novel form of artificial intelligence, a team at University of Texas at Austin has accelerated the process of identifying "polluted" white dwarf stars that are actively consuming planets in their orbit,
July 18, 2024
Houston Chronicle
UT-Austin awarded $840M to advance Department of Defense technology
The University of Texas at Austin will receive $840 million to build a facility for manufacturing “the next generation” of microelectronics used in Department of Defense systems.
July 18, 2024
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UT’s Texas Institute for Electronics Awarded $840M To Build a DOD Microelectronics Manufacturing Center, Advance U.S. Semiconductor Industry
Seeking to ensure America’s national security and global military leadership, the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency has selected the Texas Institute for Electronics at The University of Texas at Austin to develop the next generation of high-performing semiconductor microsystems for the Department of Defense.
July 17, 2024
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Paving the Way to Extremely Fast, Compact Computer Memory
In a study published in Nature, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and the Max Planck Institute for the Structure and Dynamics of Matter (MPSD) demonstrated that the layered multiferroic material nickel iodide (NiI2) may be the best candidate yet for devices that are extremely fast and compact.
July 11, 2024
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Texas Advanced Computing Center To Lead Groundbreaking NSF Computing Facility
The U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) has selected the Texas Advanced Computing Center (TACC) at The University of Texas at Austin as the nation’s Leadership-Class Computing Facility (LCCF), which will revolutionize America’s computational research for the next decade.
July 8, 2024
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New Carbon Storage Technology is Fastest of Its Kind
A new way to store carbon captured from the atmosphere developed by researchers at The University of Texas at Austin works much faster than current methods without the harmful chemical accelerants they require.
July 5, 2024
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Cultivating Interdisciplinary Collaboration
Bridging Barriers has taken a structured, proactive approach to interdisciplinary collaboration, and now, almost eight years after its creation, it has developed a network of over 300 scholars that spans nearly every college and school and research support units across The University of Texas at Austin campus.
July 2, 2024
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New Imaging Technique Uses Earth’s Warped Surface to Reveal Rocky Interior
Surface mapping technology such as GPS, radar and laser scanning have long been used to measure features on the Earth’s surface. Now, a new computational technique developed at The University of Texas at Austin is allowing scientists to use those technologies to look inside the planet.
June 26, 2024
U.S. News & World Report
Mom’s smartphone use might affect baby’s language development
Moms talked 16% less to their babies when they were fiddling with their phone, researchers at The University of Texas at Austin found in a new study.
May 20, 2024
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Conquering Breast Cancer Using Supercomputers, Data, and Mathematical Modeling
Breast cancer leads worldwide among cancers in women, claiming nearly 670,000 lives in 2022 according to the World Health Organization. TACC supercomputers at The University of Texas at Austin give scientists the computational resources and innovative data analysis tools they need to make new discoveries in understanding and treating breast cancer.