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🌊 UTMSI's new offshore buoy network is now delivering real-time data on waves, weather, water quality, and ocean conditions along the Texas coast.
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UTMSI Adds New Offshore Buoy Network - Marine Science Institute. The University of Texas at Austin.
The University of Texas Marine Science Institute (UTMSI) has expanded its coastal observing network with the deployment of a suite of offshore monitoring buoys that provide real-time environmental…
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September 16, 2026 at 10:53 PM
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🌊 Why does some carbon in the ocean remain locked away for thousands of years while other carbon cycles quickly back into the environment? A new study led by UT offers a fresh theory marinescience.utexas.edu/news/researc...
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Going in the Flow: New Theory on Why Some Carbon in the Ocean Sticks Around for Millennia
Bonded water in refractory oceanic dissolved organic matter pool as a new theory
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August 31, 2026 at 3:19 PM
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Like Google Earth, science creates amazing imagery — our grad student Kyra Jean Cipolla is also using 3D photogrammetry to examine coral reef structure and understand how the nooks and crannies in the reef influence the fish that live there. #Coral #reef #UTMSI #TexasScience
August 18, 2026 at 10:14 PM
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NaturalSciences @ UT on Instagram: "The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), supported in part by #UTAustin, will be the world’s largest telescope when it debuts in a few years. The GMT will produce images...
59 likes, 0 comments - texasscience on June 14, 2017: "The Giant Magellan Telescope (GMT), supported in part by #UTAustin, will be the world’s largest telescope when it debuts in a few years. The GMT ...
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July 28, 2026 at 12:59 AM
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A new study finds that invasive rats on tropical islands can reshape entire coral reef food webs. 🔗 marinescience.utexas.edu/news/researc...
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How invasive rats rewire coral reef food webs creating winners and losers - Marine Science Institute. The University of Texas at Austin.
Invasive rats on tropical islands are creating winners and losers among the tiny underwater animals that inhabit surrounding coral reefs. And scientists in a study released recently in Ecology say […]
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July 27, 2026 at 8:03 PM
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Marfa Mystery Lights Texas: What Science Says

Marfa Mystery Lights have been documented for over 150 years, appearing near a small town in West Texas's Chisos Mountains region. The lights display 4 distinct movement patterns: ho...

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Marfa Mystery Lights Texas: What Science Says
Marfa Mystery Lights have been documented for over 150 years, appearing near a small town in West Texas's Chisos Mountains region. The lights display 4 distinct movement patterns: hovering, splitting,
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July 20, 2026 at 8:29 PM
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Marfa Mystery Lights Texas: What Science Says

Marfa Mystery Lights have been documented for over 150 years, appearing near a small town in West Texas's Chisos Mountains region. The lights display 4 distinct movement patterns: ho...

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Marfa Mystery Lights Texas: What Science Says
Marfa Mystery Lights have been documented for over 150 years, appearing near a small town in West Texas's Chisos Mountains region. The lights display 4 distinct movement patterns: hovering, splitting,
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July 14, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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Marfa Mystery Lights Texas: What Science Says

Marfa Mystery Lights have been documented for over 150 years, appearing near a small town in West Texas's Chisos Mountains region. The lights display 4 distinct movement patterns: ho...

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Marfa Mystery Lights Texas: What Science Says
Marfa Mystery Lights have been documented for over 150 years, appearing near a small town in West Texas's Chisos Mountains region. The lights display 4 distinct movement patterns: hovering, splitting,
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July 14, 2026 at 2:44 AM
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🎉 Congratulations to Amanda Jacoby, recipient of the CNS Staff Excellence Award! Amanda’s creativity, organization, and dedication help make UTMSI’s events, outreach, and communications a success. Well deserved! 👏🌊 #UTMSI #TexasScience #StaffExcellence #HookEm
July 8, 2026 at 9:22 PM
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🩻 Science vs. Screwworms 🪰

Did you know that a University of Texas discovery — which led to a Nobel Prize — was the key to eradicating past outbreaks of the New World screwworm & is still proving useful today?
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Science vs. Screwworms: How UT Research Inspired Our Best Weapon
Key to earlier eradications of the threat was a University of Texas discovery that’s still proving useful today.
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July 2, 2026 at 9:00 PM
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🎉 Congrats grad student Lauren Bomer - selected as a GCAN Fellow! She represented Texas at the NOAA Ocean Acidification Program meeting, where she shared research, built connections, and helped shape future Gulf coastal science. gcoos.org/gcan-fellows/ #UTMSI #TexasScience
May 20, 2026 at 4:40 PM
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People still find fossils along Walnut Creek. Now that I'm understanding the geology of the area a little better, it's about time to head back out to park and revisit the scenery w/ new eyes. www.facebook.com/TexasScience...
These are two ammonite fossils found in Walnut Creek in north Austin. There are plenty of shells and other fossils easily spotted in the limestone riverbed.
May 20, 2026 at 2:33 PM
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Seeking a summer outlet for a kid interested in science & tech?

Many UT camps & academies for school-age & high-school students are still enrolling for summer science experiences in nutrition, robotics, biology & more.

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Find Science and STEM Camps and Summer Offerings from UT Austin
The University of Texas at Austin offers 2026 summer science camps, experiences for high schoolers and other youth programs covering a range of STEM topics.
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May 12, 2026 at 8:14 PM
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The National Science Foundation (NSF) has awarded Graduate Research Fellowships & honorable mentions to 43 Texas Science undergrads, grad students & recent alumni this spring. Kudos to all of these exceptional students!

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NSF Awards Graduate Research Fellowships to 27 from Natural Sciences
Dozens of UT students have received prestigious fellowships from the National Science Foundation.
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May 4, 2026 at 4:35 PM
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Meet the Dean’s Honored Graduates of 2026!⁠

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College of Natural Sciences Celebrates the 2026 Dean’s Honored Graduates
Meet the 32 graduating seniors being recognized for their excellence in research, academics, leadership and service to the community.
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April 29, 2026 at 7:44 PM
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Check out our latest issue of the Texas Scientist magazine!

Read it now at texasscientist.cns.utexas.edu — or pick up a print copy on your next visit to the Texas Science & Natural History Museum.

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April 13, 2026 at 6:36 PM
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🔭 JWST Bright Early Galaxies Mystery May Be Solved — @TexasScience
Julian Munoz (UT Austin) proposes a resolution to why JWST's earliest galaxies are far brighter than cosmological models predicted. Published in MNRAS.
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April 10, 2026 at 4:55 PM
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New research from UTMSI shows that sunlight causes ocean plastics to release dissolved chemical compounds—not just smaller plastic particles—reshaping how we understand plastic pollution. 🔬 #UTMSI #TexasScience #Plastic #Ocean #Microplastics #nurdle #MarineDebris
New Study Clarifies What Plastics Become as They Weather in the Ocean - Marine Science Institute. The University of Texas at Austin.
As many people in South Texas are aware, plastic, like the cushions on outdoor furniture, can dramatically break down when exposed to the sun. The same process is happening to […]
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March 20, 2026 at 8:20 PM
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Providing hands-on education and experience is what we do every day. #TexasScience #UTMSI
February 27, 2026 at 11:58 PM
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Student researchers in the Supra Sensors stream of the Freshman Research Initiative have been using analytical sensing tools to classify complex biological samples & study their chemical composition — including drops of wine.

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Out among the vines of Fall Creek Vineyards, science is taking root. KXAN's Eric Henrikson explains: https://www.kxan.com/news/local/hill-country/this-texas-winery-uses-x%e2%80%91ray-tech-for-wine-thanks-to-ut-student-scientists/ 
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February 27, 2026 at 4:57 PM
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Some of our earliest microbial ancestors, the Asgard archaea, were able to use oxygen, says new study in @nature.com. It may solve a mystery about how complex life first arose.

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A Break in a Longstanding Mystery about Origin of Complex Life
Breathe easy. It appears our microbial ancestors used oxygen, too.
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February 18, 2026 at 10:31 PM
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Follow your curiosity to the Texas Science Festival for two full weeks of science-inspired offerings!

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Texas Science Festival Invites Community to Partake in the Joys of Discovery
From a talk-show themed night featuring science comedy to a campus-wide day for hands-on STEM exploration to special events spotlighting the latest scientific discoveries, the 2026 Texas Science Festi...
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February 17, 2026 at 2:17 PM
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You know what we DON’T love this Valentine’s Day? 💔 Microplastics on the beach. 🏖️ Fortunately, our colleagues on the main campus, Carlos Baiz and team are working on a solution 💘 Read the story: cns.utexas.edu/news/feature...
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Microplastics in the Sand: Beach Combing Goes High Tech
A UT chemist says it is now time to develop tests for microplastics, similar to tests for other toxic threats.
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February 14, 2026 at 5:51 PM
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Meet Milit Patel, who got his start in the award-winning Freshman Research Initiative at UT. Now a biochem senior & statistics & data science minor, he is corresponding author on a major paper in the Annals of Oncology.

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UT Undergrad Uncovers Country-Specific Factors Linked to Improved Cancer Outcomes
UT biochemistry major Milit Patel collaborated with researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center on research published in a top cancer journal.
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January 16, 2026 at 9:45 PM
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What approaches in the classroom create lasting impact for students?

Vernita Gordon, a UT Austin physics professor who recently won a UT System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, has given that a lot of thought.

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5 Questions for Vernita Gordon
A 2025 University of Texas System Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award recipient reflects on why certain approaches in the classroom create lasting impact for students.
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January 2, 2026 at 9:01 PM