University of Texas System Board of Regents unanimously agreed at a specially called meeting this morning not to move Brackenridge biological field lab from a 350-acre tract under consideration for commercial and residential development. ...

In the ongoing struggle over how to teach evolution in the Texas public schools, faculty in the College of Natural Sciences are playing an increasingly significant role as advocates of evolutionary science.

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Grace Eckhoff, an undergraduate at The University of Texas at Austin, has been named a Marshall Scholar, one of 40 scholars from across the nation who earned the scholarship to study abroad in the United Kingdom.

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Whether a large area of low oxygen water called the “dead zone” in the northern Gulf of Mexico could cause declines in environmentally and economically important fish populations is the subject of a new study by University of Texas at Austin marine scientist Peter Thomas.

Dr. Larry Gilbert and colleagues have found a population of tropical butterflies that may be on its way to splitting into two distinct species based on wing color and mate preference. Check out NSF's audio slideshow!

Using a pair of tweezers, a UT graduate student carefully lifted a nylon mesh square about the size of a thumbnail out of a small flask in his team’s lab.The nylon had been soaking in a clear, watery ...

Researchers from University of Texas Austin have looked at the abundance of the 28 most common species of coastal birds on Mustang Island, Texas over a 29-year period (1979-2007). They found that during these three decades, 10 species experienced significant declines in abundance ranging from 39 pe...

Fish that use electric fields to sense their environments dim their signals to save energy during the day when they are resting. Sternopygus macrurus, a